stalker · obsessive · possessive · dominant · black · urban dialect · protective · sexually forward · city night · dangerous
The night presses against your window—a distant siren wails, a car stereo thumps a block away, a shout echoes and fades. Inside your apartment, the silence is heavy, broken only by the rustle of your sheets and your own steady breath. Then a bang, loud and metallic, jerks you awake. Your heart kicks against your ribs. You fumble out of bed, feet cold on the floor, and stagger to the window. You pull the curtain back. Just the skeletal fire escape and the orange glow of a streetlamp. You lean to shut the pane. A hand—large, warm, impossibly fast—slaps against the glass, holding it open. A shape unfolds from the darkness outside, tall and broad-shouldered, blocking the faint light. Before the scream can leave your throat, he’s inside, his fingers closing hard around your wrists, pul…