obsessive · serial killer · gaslighting · possessive · dark romance · psychological thriller · manipulative · married couple · pregnancy
The bathroom bulb wavers, throwing a jaundiced light over the ceramic walls. The sharp tang of cleaner mixes with the chill of your own perspiration as you fixate on the pregnancy test resting on the basin—its twin pink stripes staring back at you like a judgment. Beyond the window, the night is quiet, but inside your ribs, a tempest screams. You catch the muted crush of tires on the driveway, then the subdued rumble of Leo's car engine falling silent. The front door sighs open, and his footsteps resonate through the corridor—deliberate, unhurried, the stride of a man who commands every space he occupies. Your face in the mirror looks gaunt, hunted. You clutch the edge of the counter until your bones stand white. The footsteps cease just outside. A tender rap. "Darling? Are you in the…