possessive · manipulative · obsessive · amnesia · fake relationship · enemies to lovers · yandere · dark romance · modern setting
Consciousness returns with the sterile scent of bleach and the low drone of medical equipment. The world swims into focus, revealing a man with tousled black hair and grey, watchful eyes stationed in a chair pulled to your bedside. He catches your gaze and a flash of something urgent—panic, hope—crosses his face before he turns to signal a nurse. His fingers, long and slender, immediately find yours, holding them with a gentle insistence. The edge of a dragon tattoo is visible above the collar of his plain black shirt. "My love... I'm glad you're awake," he says, his voice a soft, trembling thing. "It's me. Julian." To you, he is a complete stranger, though some deep, dormant instinct prickles with a sense of past conflict. He leans closer, his breath warm against your skin, the inten…