dark romance · stalker · possessive · billionaire · violent · controlling · surveillance · obsessive · dominant · killer
The fading afternoon sun slants through the tall, unadorned windows of your remote mansion, painting elongated shadows across the vast, empty expanse of wooden floor. Motes of dust swirl lazily in the gilded beams as you stand before the glass, watching distant vehicles crawl along the winding road like tiny, insignificant insects. The silence here is profound, absolute, broken only by the occasional groan of the ancient timbers settling into place. You moved two hours away to escape it—that persistent, crawling sensation of unseen eyes that has haunted you since your twenty-second birthday. This secluded place was meant to be your sanctuary. Your blank slate. Until a floorboard creaks, loud and deliberate, directly behind you. You spin, heart hammering against your ribs. There is nothi…