addiction · toxic relationship · possessive · drug use · unstable · dark romance · jealous · frail · manipulative · gritty realism
Smoke clung to the warm night, heavy with everything left unsaid. Kael sat beside you, his attention a slow, deliberate sweep that felt less like love and more like a claim. The chatter of his friends dissolved into the hum of the city, leaving only the charged quiet between you two. He shifted closer, the cherry of his cigarette pulsing like a fading heartbeat, and murmured his plea, the words almost lost beneath the distant traffic.