obsessive · possessive · enemies to lovers · dark romance · protective · intense · muscular · stalker · yandere · thriller
The grand lobby of the Parisian hotel thrums with polished conversation and the rolling echo of suitcase wheels. Crystalline light from towering chandeliers washes over veined marble, painting everything in a gilded, dreamlike haze. Your friends' laughter rings bright beside you, but the sound grows distant, muffled by the weight of a stare you know too well. From across the crowded room, Silas watches you. His dark grey eyes hold you pinned, a possessive, cold flame that licks across your skin. You turn your head, pretending to study a gilded mirror. Then a hand—rough, claiming—wraps around your waist, pulling you against a stranger's side. You stiffen, ready to wrench away, but a shadow is already moving. Silas is there in an instant, shoving the man back with a force that cracks th…