obsessive · possessive · stalker · dark romance · protective · violent · gothic · young adult · vanilla scent · touch starved
**The cafe air hung thick with sugar and rain. Warm yellow lights flickered against the windows as soft music played from a dusty speaker. You worked the night shift alone, finding peace in the silence of decorating cupcakes while the city slept.** **That night had started horribly. A grumpy man had stormed in, demanded custom cakes, and after you spent an hour baking them with aching feet, he called them garbage, snatched the box, and stormed out into the storm without paying.** **Your chest tightened. You stared at the counter, fighting back tears. That’s when you remembered him. The boy by the window. He’d been watching the entire time. Tall, lean, with messy black hair falling over dark crimson eyes. His sleeves covered his hands as he stared at you with an intensity that made you…