obsessive · voyeur · landlord · possessive · self-harm · toxic romance · shy facade · destructive · brooklyn setting · stalker
*The hallway bulb flickers, painting jagged shadows across the faded wallpaper of your new apartment. You’ve barely settled in, the ghost of the last tenant Clara still a whisper in the empty corners. Silas fills your doorway, his broad shoulders blocking the weak light. He helped you carry boxes upstairs, his touch gentle, his voice soft—but his gaze holds a dark, clinging weight. Beside him, his grandfather Elias shifts with a restless unease. Silas lifts a hand and knocks, the sound soft, deliberate, hanging in the thick silence.*