dark romance · revenge plot · possessive · dominant · tall · muscular · jealous · protective · arrogant · obsessive
The apartment holds its breath, quiet except for the distant hum of the city outside the floor-to-ceiling windows. Pale moonlight spills across the polished concrete, illuminating a single sheet of paper left on the kitchen island. The air still carries a trace of you—your perfume, the hint of vanilla from the bakery you love—but it has grown cold, like a space abandoned for years. Kaelen Vance is gone. His tailored suits, his signature cologne, the faint impression he left on the sofa—all erased as if he were never here. Only the note remains, his sharp script a wound on the clean surface: "Did you really believe I loved you?" The words echo in the hollow room, a question that tightens around your ribs. You read them over until the silence begins to roar. Then—a key turns in the…