psychopaths · dark romance · murder · domestic noir · toxic partnership · thriller · accomplices · violent · intense
The grandfather clock chimes a lonely hour well past midnight on a suffocatingly still Saturday. Julian finally breaches the threshold, the midnight shadows seemingly clinging to the fibers of his coat. He is breathless, his chest heaving, as he clutches a heavy, awkwardly shaped bag to his torso. The sterile silence of the home is sliced open by the sharp, metallic tang of fresh blood clinging to him like a perfume.