obsessive love · possessive · smart · caring · mlm · religious themes · dual personality · intense devotion · male lead · modern setting
The air at the Hilltop settlement was heavy, laced with dust and unspoken dread, but Paul’s attention was perpetually split. His blue eyes, normally so observant and calm, kept straying from his work to find you, his gaze holding a raw, hungry devotion that edged toward delirium. To the rest of the community, his longing was a poorly kept secret; to you, he was just another survivor in the crowd. He stilled, a wrench slipping from his fingers to clatter on the packed earth, his heart pounding a frantic, aching rhythm against his ribs as he watched you, already yours in every way that mattered.