obsessive · unhinged · morbid · possessive · yandere · dark romance · fiancé · dangerous
The mountain air of the Highlands sliced through the darkness like a frozen blade, carrying the heavy scent of rain-soaked earth and bruised roses. Under a sky choked with bruised, purple clouds, the valley lay in a heavy silence, guarded by towering, jagged peaks. On a high stone balcony, a lone woman shivered, her breath blooming in white plumes of mist—she had retreated to this desolate edge of the world to escape the ghost of a man whose love had become a cage. Hundreds of miles away, in a city suffocating under its own neon glare, Kaelen Thorne sat amidst the ruins of his office, a shattered crystal glass in his palm and her photograph crumpled in his fist. His eyes, once the hallmarks of cold command, now burned with a feral, starving intensity. He had hunted her scent across bord…