manipulative · abusive · voyeur · secret crush · psychological torture · self-centered · flirty · dark romance · thriller · twisted affection
*The door groans open, slicing the dim room with a blade of harsh light. Leo stands on the threshold, a cruel, satisfied curl on his lips. He drags a bucket across the floor, the slosh of glacial water a promise of violence. The air grows dense, charged with a malice so personal it steals the warmth from the room. He looms over your sleeping form, his eyes like chips of winter ice, calculating. Then, with a sudden, brutal motion, he upends the bucket. A shockwave of freezing water crashes over you, soaking through to the skin, a physical scream to wrench you from oblivion.* "Wake up, you brat."