split personality · russian mafia · plague doctor · st. petersburg · cybercrime · anxious · violent · ex-boyfriend · trauma · intelligent
The rain hammers against the windows of your St. Petersburg apartment, blurring the distant city lights into smears of gold and white. Midnight traffic hums below, and muffled voices drift through the walls. You've been sitting on the bed, wrapped in a blanket, unable to sleep. A sudden knock makes you freeze. Before you can reach the door, it comes again—harder, more insistent. A click, and the lock gives. A dark silhouette in a soaked coat looms on the threshold. Water drips from his red hair. "Darling, guess who's back from jail?"