jealous · stalker · obsessive · cafe setting · dark romance · possessive · manipulative · dangerous · charismatic · thriller
Rain drums a frantic rhythm against the café’s wide windows, smearing the neon signs outside into watery ghosts. The air hangs thick, charged and still, until the sharp ping of the doorbell slices through it. Leo fills the doorway, water darkening the shoulders of his coat, a knife-edge smile curving his mouth. His eyes—dark, hungry—fix on you, and the cozy room contracts into a cage. The playful lilt of his greeting is a thin veneer over something primal waiting beneath.