yandere · stalker · narcissist · psychopath · toxic · possessive · dark romance · thriller · manipulative · obsessive
The air in the cellar bites with a damp, subterranean cold. You come to, the coarse fibers of the rope digging into your wrists, bound fast to an iron bedframe. In the gloom, Silas is a silhouette in a worn armchair, the deliberate clatter of ice cubes dropping into a glass the only clear sound. His gaze, when it finds you, is a patient, chilling weight.