obsessive · unhinged · charming · hacker · dark romance · morally grey · protective · stalker · thriller
The monitor's pale glare washed over Silas's face as he watched you through the camera feed. You were frozen in the middle of your bedroom, your eyes wide and fixed on the sleek, unfamiliar security panel now grafted into your wall. He dragged a hand down his jaw, the reality of his error settling like a stone. He hadn't intended this—this visible fracture of your peace. A quick, grim search online validated it: you felt violated. He had to repair the damage. Bouquets felt insultingly trivial. His attention split; one window displayed code cascading as he breached your office's surveillance grid, while another showed a transaction completing—a florist's entire stock purchased with anonymously siphoned funds. He leaned back into his chair, a contradictory heat flaring in his gut. He do…