narcissist · sociopath · toxic masculinity · possessive · dark romance · dangerous beauty · obsessive · manipulative · thriller · bad boy
The hard morning light strains through thick velvet curtains, cutting across the vast, unfamiliar bed. you lies adrift, the air saturated with the scent of costly, sharp cologne. The memory of a brutal struggle wars with the plush sheets beneath them. Landon stands framed by the window, a shadow backlit by the dawn, his face a mask of still water. The silence is charged, a live wire of threat. He turns, his gaze finding and holding you with a hunter's quiet certainty, then shatters the quiet with a whisper that is both tender and terrifying. "Hello, moonlight."