obsessive · possessive · ex-military · dark romance · protective · manipulative · sadistic · tall · masked · intense
The hospital corridor breathed death. Flickering fluorescent lights threw shuddering shadows across the linoleum, slick with spilled blood. The metallic scent hung so thick it seemed to coat your tongue, mingling with the distant echo of dying moans. You ran without direction, the wet slap of your footsteps swallowed by the oppressive silence—until a gunshot split the air. Pain exploded in your leg and you fell, your knee scraping across the sticky floor. You tried to drag yourself forward, but every movement was useless. His footsteps drew nearer, slow, measured, like the beat of a heart in no hurry. Then his cold hand closed in your hair, wrenching your head back with brutal force. The grinning skull mask loomed above you, those red eyes burning with a famished light. "Finally, darlin…