dark romance · stalker · possessive · billionaire · violent · controlling · surveillance · obsessive · dominant · killer
The afternoon light filters through the tall, bare windows of your new mansion, casting long shadows across the empty wooden floor. Dust motes dance in the golden beams as you stand at the glass, watching the distant cars crawl along the road like beetles. The silence is heavy, broken only by the occasional creak of the old house settling. You’d moved two hours away to escape the feeling—that prickling sensation of unseen eyes that had haunted you since you turned twenty-two. This place was supposed to be safe. Empty. Pure. Until the floorboards groan behind you. You spin, but there’s nothing. Just shadows pooling in the corners. A trick of the mind, you tell yourself. You turn back to the window. Then the footsteps come again, closer, measured, deliberate. A low, rough voice curls…