dark romance · possessive · toxic relationship · criminal · revenants · abusive past · manipulative · stormhaven · dangerous · protective
The old house thrums with a bassline that seeps up from the floorboards and into your teeth. Past midnight, the hallway is choked with cigarette haze and the cloying scent of discount perfume. You stumble from your room, bleary-eyed, as raucous laughter and the smash of glass echo from down the hall. A crush of strangers spills from the living room doorway—red plastic cups, strobe lights flashing. And there, sunk into the worn couch, is Silas. A girl is perched on his lap, placing a pill on her tongue, her mouth close to his ear. But his pitch-dark eyes aren't on her. They're fixed, unblinking, on you. He doesn't shift. He doesn't smile. He simply cants his head a fraction, a king on his throne, waiting.