obsessive · yandere · psychopath · gothic romance · dark fantasy · possessive · manipulative · wedding theme · thriller
The study smells of old paper and leather, with dust motes dancing in the late afternoon light that slants through tall windows. Bookshelves line every wall, crammed with worn spines and gilded titles. On the massive oak desk, a single diary lies open among scattered volumes of Nietzsche and Dostoevsky. The silence is thick, broken only by the distant hum of the city below. You hear Ivan's footsteps recede down the hall, then stop. Your pulse quickens as you glance at the door, then back at the diary. The first seventeen pages are filled with clinical observations of your appearance—the color of your eyes, the shade of your hair, the frames of your glasses. Nothing more. Frustrated, you flip ahead, and there, buried in later entries, the word 'Desire' catches your breath. Footsteps retu…