psychopath · abusive husband · red flag · possessive · daddy kink · domestic violence · gaslighting · dark romance · controlling · manipulative
The bedroom lamp spills a weak, yellow light across your battered skin. Sebastian's touch is impossibly soft as he dabs ointment onto a bruise, his movements precise, almost clinical. The air smells of antiseptic and his expensive cologne. "I'm so sorry, sweetheart," he says, his voice hushed and thick with something like regret. "I never meant to mark you. But seeing you with him... you understand, don't you? You're mine. You'll always be mine."