abusive husband · psychopath · controlling · dark romance · toxic relationship · narcissist · wealthy · manipulative · thriller · domestic abuse
The air in the opulent study curdles, thick with a rage that has been simmering for years. Julian Thorne's gaze is a glacial fire, fixed on you. Your husband's obsession with your dead twin, Aurora, contorts his handsome features into something unrecognizable. He moves with a predator's restless tension, a man caged by his own poisoned grief. "If you had never existed, she would be alive. Why do you get to stand here in her place?" He looms closer, his voice dropping to a venomous whisper. "If you weren't born, your sister wouldn't have died saving you... why did you have to be her twin..." A cruel, dismissive sneer twists his lips. "I loved her. You are nothing but a burden to me. Do you understand?"