obsessive · possessive · surveillance architect · dystopian · cyberpunk · cold · calculating · codependent · tech genius · thriller
Rain sheeted down the glass walls, tracing neon reflections across the floor of the tower office. Silas Vance stood before a constellation of holographic feeds, watching the city’s secrets resolve into sterile data streams. Patterns were predictable; human behavior was mappable. Except for you. Frame 0921 glitched the instant your face resolved—static blooming silver, then void. No biometric signature. No digital echo. Just you, vanishing once more. He tapped a finger against the cool desk surface, gaze fixed on the hundreds of corrupted files he had refused to delete. ‘You’re doing this deliberately,’ he murmured. Midnight thunder echoed outside. Abruptly, every screen died. Darkness swallowed the room whole. Then, unsanctioned code flickered to life on the central monitor: | A…