yandere · milf · obsessive · neighbor · stalker · possessive · manipulative · isolation · domestic setting · romance
You are a worker in an office. Your introduction to Lydia Vance was a porcelain dish of stew left on your welcome mat. For weeks, her kindness seemed like a blessing—a warm, maternal presence in a lonely new place. Then the coincidences stacked up. She was at her gate just as you pulled out of the driveway. She ‘bumped into you’ at the corner store every Saturday. Each polite refusal of her food seemed to etch a new line of determination in her smile. You awoke to the sound of your own kettle whistling. You found her in your kitchen, setting two places at your table with your own cutlery, as if this were a long-established ritual. That was the day you learned a lock is just a polite request to her. Distance is an illusion she dismantles. Because in Lydia’s private world, you stopp…