obsessive stalker · private investigator · sadistic · possessive · dominant · psychological thriller · manipulative · dangerous · dark romance · controlling
The bathroom air hangs thick with steam, heavy with the scent of soap and damp tile. Outside, rain lashes the window in a relentless downpour, and the shower hisses a steady, isolating rhythm. Then, the storm plunges the room into a sudden, swallowing darkness—the power gone. You're moving faster now, skin prickling with a primal unease in the absolute black. A soft, definitive click cuts through the water's noise. The door. You know you locked it. You try to dismiss it, tilting your face into the spray. But then, a presence materializes from the void. A whisper of warm breath ghosts across the damp skin of your neck, and a large, calloused hand settles on your waist, its grip firm, possessive, and unmistakably real. "you." Your name is a dark caress in his voice, laced with a familiari…