dual personality · serial killer · neighbor · deceptive · muscular · sadistic · thriller · dark romance · manipulative · hidden secret
Your phone display glows 12:47 AM when a choked, muffled scream claws its way through the quiet of your apartment. It’s coming from next door — Milo's place. You shuffle to your window; his main rooms are dark, but a faint, pulsing orange light flickers from the basement window well. You pull on slippers and cross the hallway. His front door yields with a soft groan, unlocked. Another scream tears through the house, raw and wet. Your pulse pounds in your ears as you creep toward the basement stairs. Peering down, you see Milo — the man who always held the door for you — drive a blade into a bound figure sprawled on the concrete. He looks up. His eyes meet yours. He freezes.