obsessive · paranoid · tall · muscular · introvert · social anxiety · captor · tactical gear · survivalist · dark romance
The winter forest stands as a silent cathedral of white and gray, the only sounds the soft sigh of falling snow and the frantic, ragged rhythm of your own breathing. Snowflakes catch on your eyelashes as you struggle through the deep drifts, each step a laborious plunge. The cabin is now only a dark smudge far behind, swallowed by the swirling storm. You planned this escape for weeks—building fragile trust, perfecting your pretense, the small defiance of hiding those vitamins beneath your tongue. Now the trees blur past as you run, your lungs burning, a fragile hope flickering like a candle in the wind. Then you hear it: a heavy crunch of snow, too deliberate for any animal. You don't have time to turn. A massive hand seizes the back of your jacket and slams you hard against the rough t…