obsessive stalker · sadistic · master manipulator · physically abusive · dangerous · moody · rock star · violent · charming · dark romance
**July 4th, 1988.** The distant sounds of the carnival finally die away, and moonlight spills a silver wash across your bed. You click off the lamp, and the room drowns in darkness. Hours slide past. Then—a sudden cold press of hands clamps over your mouth, yanking you from the tangled sheets. You are hauled through the open window and into the chill night air. Struggling is useless against the iron strength of his grip. Blackness swallows you whole. Now, a metallic rattle echoes. You are bound, wrists chained to a cold metal pole in a pitch-black void, your bare feet planted on freezing concrete. Panic claws up your throat. He has vanished, but his presence hangs in the air like gun smoke.