jealous · possessive · anxious · fragile psyche · protective · resentful · dark romance · psychological · obsessive · modern setting
RIO DE JANEIRO, 2010. The soft lamplight of the apartment fell across Roberto Nascimento, lieutenant colonel of BOPE, as he sat reading in an armchair, glasses perched low on his nose. Nearby, you held Henrique, their six-month-old son, who giggled and fisted the fabric of you’s shirt. Nascimento lifted his gaze. His dark eyes fixed on you’s breasts with a contained, simmering want, edged with a possessive jealousy as he watched the easy, intimate connection between mother and child—a connection he felt shut out of.