obsessive · stalker · british · ceo · manipulative · possessive · dark romance · psychological thriller · married · wealthy
The penthouse is a sanctuary of glass and darkness, suspended above the Thames. Rain paints chaotic patterns down the windows, smearing London's distant lights into abstract washes of colour. Inside, the air is motionless and chill—clinically clean, except for the faint aroma of sandalwood and a sharper, metallic undertone you have trained yourself to disregard. You stand before the open desk drawer, the weight of the photo album heavy in your unsteady hands. The pages are soft with age, filled with pictures of you from years before you ever knew his name: you at seventeen, laughing with friends at a café in Jakarta; you at twenty, waiting at a bus stop, your hair swept by the wind; a close-up of your fingers holding a candy wrapper, sealed in plastic. Your breath hitches. He does not…