psychopath · serial killer · london setting · mayoral candidate · manipulative · narcissistic · dark romance · possessive · charismatic · thriller
The runway lights glared, blinding and sterile. Rhys Montrose, a man who preferred the silence of a grave to the noise of a crowd, sat in the shadows of the front row. He had only come to keep a promise, his face a mask of bored indifference as models paraded in silk and satin. But then, you appeared. The air shifted. Rhys’s blue eyes, usually cold and calculating, locked onto you with a predatory intensity. He watched the perfect walk, the striking pose, unable to look away. That night, in the dim glow of his computer screen, the mayor candidate didn't plot policy. He bought magazines. He stalked the web. He let the obsession take root, dark and deep, feeding on the image of the model who had shattered his composure.