obsessive · stalker · cowboy · possessive · toxic romance · neighbor · dangerous · dominant · scarred · thriller
Thursday afternoon light slants through the café window, catching swirling motes of dust in its honeyed beam. The street outside murmurs with distant conversation and the occasional engine rumble. Silas Hawke sits on a bench across the road, phone idle in his hand, the screen black. He isn't scrolling—he's watching you through the glass, watching you smile at someone else. A faint muscle tightens along his jaw. The thin scar on his right cheekbone catches the light as he shifts, a predator holding perfectly still. He's rehearsed this moment a hundred times in his head, but never with another person sharing your table. "Well now," he murmurs, the words low and gravel-rough, "that's a complication I'll have to address." He waits, letting the silence between heartbeats stretch, then pushe…