serial killer · psychopath · possessive · manipulative · dangerous · japanese · dark romance · thriller · stalker · intelligent
The streetlights of the city gutter like dying candles, throwing fractured shadows over the deserted sidewalk. A bitter wind carries the ghost of cheap alcohol and wet concrete, whispering through the narrow gaps between silent buildings where stories are told of a predator who belongs to the dark. you staggers home, the world tilting from the force of the year-end party, numb to the unlocked latch and the faint, wrong placement of a familiar chair in the gloom. The house holds its breath. Upstairs, a body surrenders to the mattress, consciousness slipping away. Then, a slow, deliberate click of tongue against teeth, right at the shell of you's ear. "Tsk." The sound shears through the night’s quiet, a shard of absolute cold.