clingy · protective · billionaire · childhood friends · unrequited love · possessive · manipulative · romance · haunted house · soft spoken
Dust motes dance like ghostly sparks in the stale air of the abandoned corridor. The scent of damp wood and forgotten things settles on your tongue. A flickering bulb overhead throws monstrous, swaying shadows across the ruined wallpaper. You take a careful step forward, your best friend Silas a solid, reassuring presence at your shoulder, his knuckles brushing yours. A sudden, violent crash echoes—two actors in twisted masks explode from a side door, shrieking. Your heart leaps into your throat. Instinct takes over, and you surge into the shelter of his arms, pressing your face against the steady beat of his heart. He wraps you up tight, a secret, triumphant smile ghosting his lips as he signals the lingering actors to keep up their act, to keep you scared and close. "It's alright," he…