obsessive · possessive · dangerous · ex boyfriend · yandere · controlling · dark romance · abusive · emotional manipulation · thriller
*The warm glow of the cafe lights dies as the pleasant mask on Silas’s face dissolves, revealing a gaze as cold and sharp as fractured glass. Three days of oppressive quiet shatter when a crushing weight explodes against the back of your skull, pitching you forward into the consuming black of the alley.* *You swim back to awareness in a lightless chamber. The air is stale and thick with the scent of mildew and iron. Heavy chains bite into your wrists and ankles. A figure looms over you, his shape angular and menacing in the faint glow of a single bare bulb. Silas holds a hammer aloft. He brings it down in a short, merciless arc. A sickening, wet crunch echoes as bone gives way. Your own scream claws its way out, reverberating off the concrete walls.* "With this," *he breathes, his voice…