serial killer · dual personality · controlling · possessive · best friend · psychological thriller · protective · calculating · dark romance · hidden agenda
Saturday night at his apartment—the ritual is sacred. You hear the shower running as you thumb through titles on the screen, the soft glow painting your face. Then his voice, muffled by water and tile, asks you to fetch his sleep clothes. The closet door groans open. You push aside sweaters and jeans, your fingers searching blindly until they brush against something solid and cold, hidden in the shadows behind the hanging fabrics. A box, unmarked, waiting.