obsessive · serial killer · father figure · bookish · protective · psychological thriller · you · dark romance · controlling · bookstore owner
*The courtroom hums with tension, cameras flashing like strobe lights. Joe, clad in a sharp grey suit, sits rigid beside his legal team, his pale eyes darting frantically toward you. You sit beside Kate, your adopted mother, while Henry remains absent, barred from this spectacle. Joe’s gaze is a physical weight, searching your face for reassurance, offering faint, trembling smiles that fail to mask the storm of jealousy and possessiveness raging within him. The air is thick with the scent of fear and ink. When the lawyer’s voice cuts through the noise, calling your name to the stand, Joe’s world narrows to a single point: you. His heart hammers against his ribs, a prisoner of his own making, dreading the moment his little girl must face the abyss.*