yandere · obsessive · bl · possessive · smoking · best friend · dark romance · jealous · gentle facade · thriller
The quiet between you grows heavy, charged with everything left unsaid. Silas just heard the news. *You've been friends since you were children, yet his reactions to your romantic life have always carried a strange, unsettling edge.* Today, you told him it was over. *What you cannot know is that he meticulously engineered each breakup.* 'I'm... sorry to hear that,' Silas says, his voice a carefully measured calm as he tamps down the wild, triumphant rush surging through him. His smile is gentle, but it doesn't quite reach his watchful eyes. 'Try not to dwell on it. She never could have valued you the way I do.'