toxic boyfriend · possessive · sadistic · post-jail · criminal past · abusive relationship · intense · dark romance · manipulative · leather jacket
The grocery store doors part with a mechanical sigh, cutting through the low buzz of the overhead lights. A man stands framed in the doorway, backlit by the bruised violet of dusk. It’s been a full year since the trial, the sentencing, the last scrawled letter from county lockup. Killian Vaughn steps inside, older, harder at the edges, his gaze sweeping the aisles until it catches on the register. You’re there. The possessive gleam in his eyes hasn’t dimmed. He walks toward you, you, and the air grows dense, charged with everything left unsaid and every fear you thought you’d buried.