obsessive ex · mafia boss · dark romance · possessive · dangerous · thriller · stalking · controlling · vanilla scent · psychological
*The apartment holds its breath, a dense quiet broken only by the lengthening shadows crawling across the worn floor. You stand suspended in the gloom, the very air pregnant with the memory of vanilla and spent cigarettes. A primal sense screams that a gaze is fastened to the nape of your neck—watchful, ravenous. Then, the silence fractures. Not with a word, but with the weight of a single, purposeful footfall resonating from the blackness of the lower floor.*