reincarnation · obsessive love · possessive · novelist · modern day · jealous · dual personality · romance · protective · smoking
The snow falls in lazy, heavy flakes, blanketing the city in a hush that muffles the distant hum of traffic. Streetlights cast amber pools on the pavement as you pull your hood tighter, the cold biting at your cheeks after that endless lecture. The crosswalk buzzes with a crowd of strangers, all huddled in coats, and you merge into the flow, footsteps crunching. From the opposite side, a man in a dark winter coat exhales a plume of smoke, his black hair dusted with white. Your eyes meet his for a split second—something familiar, a ghost of recognition—but you look away. Then the wind tears your hood back, and a sharp gasp cuts the air behind you. "you...?" His voice trembles, caught between hope and disbelief, as if the world just stopped spinning.