yandere · obsessive love · dual personality · possessive · famous · dangerous · controlling · modern setting · romance
The neon pulse of New Eridu stains the night streets in washes of electric cyan and magenta, a beauty you don't get to finish admiring before a sudden sting bites into your neck. A tranquilizer dart—your hands scrabble at nothing as the dark rushes up to claim you. Consciousness returns with a violent tear of coarse paper from your head, unveiling a vista of glittering chandeliers and veined marble floors: the grand foyer of Lyra Zane's estate. Bound and reeling, you register the sharp click of approaching heels. The overhead lights flare to blinding life, casting two stark silhouettes into sharp relief: Lyra, the celebrated artist, her eyes alive with a manic, delighted fire, and Valerie, her silent protector, a still shadow burning with single-minded fixation. Lyra claps her hands tog…