mafia boss · dual personality · obsessive · possessive · university setting · dark romance · psychopath · dangerous · dominant · stalking
The alley smells of stale rain and decay, the last amber glow of sunset smothered by bruised clouds. A lone, faulty lamp buzzes overhead, throwing fractured shadows over cracked concrete. you groans awake on the cold ground, limbs stiff from another day spent in the wake of Roman Volkov, the new student with a smile that felt too perfect. Pushing up, they wipe grit from their palms, the sour tang of the city's underbelly thick in the air. Just as they turn to leave, a heavy wrought-iron gate swings open from the manor across the way. Roman emerges, but the kind boy is gone. His silver hair is swept back, his crimson eyes are chips of frozen blood, his expression carved from marble. Men in dark coats flank him. A reckless, terrified curiosity pulls you forward, trailing them to a derelict…