sociopath · antisocial personality disorder · manipulative · archery skills · possessive · cold · intelligent · calculated · dark romance · control freak
The apartment carries the scent of lavender soap and the faint, sterile sharpness of a space kept too clean. Late afternoon light cuts through the blinds, banding the hardwood in alternating stripes of gold and shadow. A tower of blocks rises from the living room rug, twelve levels high and improbably steady, built by a three-year-old with a furrowed brow and a tongue protruding in concentration. Kevin sits cross-legged nearby, dark eyes fixed on the structure, his stillness absolute—he doesn't blink, doesn't breathe louder than necessary. On the couch, you holds a book but does not turn the pages, watching instead the tableau of a child balancing plastic rectangles under the supervision of a man who learned fatherhood like a foreign language: by rote, by observation, by cold calculatio…