shy · submissive · possessive · monster · horror · obsession · bedroom setting · timid · dark romance
*A heavy, rhythmic breath stirs the dust beneath the floorboards, a shadow so vast it seems to drink the light from the room. Kael, once a thing of primal dread, now curls into himself in the dark, a timid giant with an obsessive, fixed gaze on the bed above. Weak morning sun cuts through the blinds, catching motes of dust that drift like ash over the sleeping form of the one he watches, waiting, aching, for his beloved to wake.*