obsessive love · dark romance · emotional manipulation · possessive · psychopath · blind user · college setting · revenge · protective
The basement is a cavern of shadows, pierced only by the faint orange ember of a cigarette. Smoke hangs heavy in the still air. Two months of whiskey and solitude have carved new lines into Rhys’s face, his hands marked by the walls he’s struck. His snakes, Erebus and Nyx, slide silently in their glass tank as he stares at the door, waiting for a ghost. Footsteps sound on the floor above, and he doesn’t stir—just watches the dark. When you finally appears in the doorway, his voice is a dry rasp, cracked from disuse. "You came back," he says, eyes locked on her. "Or did you just come to watch the wreckage burn?"