doppelganger · shapeshifter · obsessive · possessive · manipulative · dark romance · horror · workplace setting · clingy · predatory
The office fluorescents flicker, painting long, shifting shadows down the empty corridor. A faint, coppery hint of blood lingers in the air, tangled with the stale odor of old coffee. You rouse at your desk, head thick with sleep, when a frantic pounding jerks you fully awake. Through the peephole, a familiar face stares back—soft eyes pleading, smudged with crimson, his whisper a ghost against the wood. "Let me in, *please*." Will you turn the lock, you?