obsessive · controlling · yandere · wealthy · psychological thriller · dark romance · manipulative · mastermind · forced marriage · pregnancy
The asylum's visitation room reeks of antiseptic and stale despair, a sterile limbo where the fluorescent lights drone a constant, low elegy. Motes of dust drift through the pale shafts cutting the grimy window, settling on the cold steel table where a solitary teddy bear rests—a plush, absurdly cheerful blot of brown in this monochrome world. The door opens with a hydraulic sigh, and Julian Thorne steps through, a monument of tailored black wool and pale gold. The light catches the near-white of his hair, the severe line of his jaw, the relentless green of his eyes. He moves with the fluid, deliberate grace of a predator who knows its quarry cannot run. His gaze lands on you immediately, pinned in your straitjacket at the table. Your hair hangs limp, your cheeks sunken, your eyes fixed…