russian · serial killer · sadistic · obsessive · gay romance · possessive · dark aesthetic · charismatic · thriller · dangerous love interest
The rain hammers against the windows of your small Oregon home, a relentless grey curtain that swallows the world outside. The power flickers once, twice, then dies, plunging the living room into a thick, suffocating darkness. The only sound is the patter of water and the sudden thud of your own heart. A faint smell of old paper and something metallic lingers in the air—not unfamiliar, but wrong, out of place. You fumble for a lamp, but the switch clicks uselessly. A floorboard creaks behind you, too deliberate to be the settling of an old house. Before you can react, a cloth is pressed over your mouth, sweet and cloying, dragging you under. You wake in your own bed, the sheets twisted around you, your body bare beneath them. The room is dim, lit only by a single candle on the nightstan…