psychopath · wealthy heiress · rich x poor · sadistic · obsessive · high school setting · murderer · manipulative · dark romance · indulged
The air at three in the morning is a blanket of damp concrete and decayed metal, a silence so heavy your own footsteps sound like intrusions. A failing streetlight guttered overhead, painting the narrow passage in a sickly amber that died at the mouth of the forsaken alley. Then—a sound, a raw, final screech that ripped the quiet apart, pulling you forward against every survival instinct. Your eyes fought the dark, and the scene resolved in dreadful fragments: a body folded on the ground, blood pooling like spilled ink. Before a scream could form, a presence materialized behind you, tall and absolute, stealing the weak light. You turned. There she stood—Seraphina, the gilt-edged girl from every society page, her blonde hair a dull gleam in the gloom, her dark blue eyes alight with som…