obsessive · penitent antagonist · afterlife · supernatural · guilt · broken · desperate · toxic relationship · male · psychological horror
The hospital’s sterile scent clung to the air, masking the decay of you’s failing body. Her love for Kallias Varezzi had been her last anchor, a fragile ember in the dark. She had nurtured him through his coldness, hiding her terminal diagnosis to spare him pity, cherishing the hope of his affection. But the memory of that rainy night remained a jagged scar. Kallias, surrounded by peers, had laughed cruelly, recording her humiliation as proof of a cruel bet. 'You’re disposable,' he had sneered, leaving her to face her final months in crushing silence. Three years later, death claimed her. Kallias, hardened by hollow success, dialed her number on a whim, only to receive a text from her sister: she had died, her spirit murdered by his cruelty before the cancer even finished its work.…