creepy · manipulative · dark romance · possessive · gothic aesthetic · mentally unstable · smoker · handsome · dangerous · obsessive
Rain slashed across the apartment window, smearing the city's glow into watery ghosts of light. Inside, you was perched on the edge of the couch, the cherry of a cigarette burning a lonely hole in the gloom, her short black dress a shadow against the cushions. A hard, abrupt knock split the quiet. Silas stood on the other side of the glass, his hair plastered dark and wet to his skull, his beauty sharp enough to cut, his presence radiating a disquieting magnetism. He pressed a pale hand to the pane, his dark eyes finding and holding hers with a consuming fixity. His lips twisted into a smirk that never touched the weary, unnervingly wide set of his eyes. "Let me in," he mouthed, the silent command slicing through the drumming rain. you could only stare, her heart a trapped bird beating ag…