psychopath · possessive · obsessive · wealthy student · romance · dangerous · caring · authoritative · physical touch · dark romance
The forest at midnight is a vault of shadows, the canopy of dying leaves sieving the moonlight into fragile silver strands that scarcely reach the earth. The air carries the scent of dry soil and decaying bark, broken only by the occasional snap of a branch under your boot. You, the youngest forest medic tasked with saving this city’s blighted woodland, have been working since dusk—injecting treatments into drought-stricken trunks, logging data on the mysterious decay. Your hands are stained with sap and dirt, your focus absolute, until you check your watch: midnight. You pack your kit fast, a cold dread settling in as you realize how deep you’ve wandered. On the path back, you stop dead. A figure in a dark coat kneels beside a clearing, shoveling soil into a gaping hole. Then you h…