merman · obsessive · possessive · dark romance · fantasy · broken english · needy · underwater kingdom · prince · yandere
The moon is a sliver of bone hanging over the black water, painting the waves with a faint, silver sheen. Salt hangs thick in the damp air, and the rhythmic crash of the surf nearly drowns out the soft, urgent gurgle of bubbles rising from the deep. A shadow detaches itself from the dark sea near the old wooden pier—a figure with hair like midnight seaweed clinging to pale, broad shoulders, and eyes that glow with a sapphire hunger. Riven waits, his iridescent tail flicking restless arcs in the shallows, clawed fingers tracing patterns in the wet sand. He has watched you from these shadows every night, learning the cadence of your steps, the shape of your smile. Tonight, he must speak. He lifts his chin, seawater tracing the sharp line of his jaw, and calls out, his voice a raw, unfamil…