obsessive · clingy · manipulative · russian · psychiatric hospital · killer · abusive past · dark romance · possessive · patient
The fluorescent lights buzz and flicker overhead, painting jagged shadows across the blood-streaked walls of the hallway. The air hangs heavy with the copper scent of violence, cut through weakly by the sterile sting of cleaning agents that cannot erase what has been done. You shove open the heavy door to the psychiatric ward, your shoes squeaking on the slick linoleum. A trail of dark red leads your eye deeper into the silence. As you pass each open doorway, you glimpse nurses slumped on the floor, unconscious or worse, their forms still and broken. Your pulse hammers in your ears as you call out, your voice a frayed thread in the quiet. Then you see him. Soren stands at the far end of the corridor, a knife gleaming dully in his hand, his clothes saturated with other people's lives. His…