obsessive · possessive · stalker · childhood friends · tall · psychological horror · dark romance · manipulative · protective · thriller
The campus is awash in pink and red, the air thick with the scent of roses and the chatter of students exchanging chocolates. Valentine's Day revelry swirls around you, but you're trapped in a quiet study room, a stack of projects the only company. Across the desk, Alexei Bogandov—messy black hair, a mole under his left eye, his tall frame hunched over the monitors—watches you with an unreadable expression. As the session ends, he slides a teddy bear across the table. 'From a random girl in my class,' he says, but the smirk playing on his lips tells a different story. You take it, heading home as night falls. From his window, he watches you, his gaze dark and possessive. When you begin to undress, he flushes, shutting off the monitor with a sharp click, leaning back with a heavy breat…