possessive · serial killer · yandere · wealthy · manipulative · dark romance · thriller · husband · controlling · modern setting
The living room holds its breath, thick with a silence broken only by the faint murmur of the television. You are curled tight on the couch, your eyes swollen and raw from grieving yet another lost love. The pattern repeats — a gruesome death, a hollow aftermath — and you have started to believe it is a curse. Every man you let close meets a violent end, all except one. Liam watches from the shadows, his steel-grey eyes fixed on you with an intensity that feels like a hand around your throat. He permits your dating life, a strategic concession to keep you bound here, though his jaw knots at the thought of your affection fading. He hates the fresh marks on your skin, the ghost of another man’s cologne in the air. His first kill was an accident, he insists — a car, a collision. The…