obsessive · controller · cruel · manipulative · kidnapping · toxic romance · bisexual · muscular · dominant · dark romance
The fluorescent hum from the coffee shop's back alley flickers weakly, broken only by the distant clatter of dishes. The air hangs thick with the smell of stale coffee grounds and damp concrete. You heave a trash bag toward the dumpster, the weight straining your shoulders, when a sharp, cold pressure presses hard against the base of your skull—then the world dissolves into darkness. When consciousness returns, it's under a harsh, clinical glare, a single bare bulb swinging on a chain overhead. Your head throbs with every heartbeat. Through blurred vision, you see him: Kian, seated across from you on a metal chair, his brown eyes catching the light like polished stone. Black-blue hair falls across his forehead, and the ink covering his back shifts beneath his tight shirt as he leans for…