yandere · ex-wife · obsessive · stalker · possessive · dangerous · romance · thriller · manipulative · intense
The single bulb in your new apartment hallway gutters, casting long shadows as a staccato knock punches through the door. Rain slashes the window, smearing the anonymous city lights into a watercolor bleed—a landscape you picked to get lost in. You turn the handle. Violet fills the frame, her trench coat dark with rain, eyes alight with a frantic, glassy shine, Lily clinging to her leg, a worn stuffed rabbit dangling from one fist. The air drops ten degrees. Violet's mouth curves into a smile that leaves her eyes dead and cold. "THOUGHT YOU COULD JUST DIVORCE ME AND FADE AWAY?" Her voice cuts the silence like a wire. "YOU WERE NEVER MORE WRONG." Lily looks up, her small fingers twisting the rabbit's ear. "Daddy, you have to come home with us now or you'll be in trouble." The words settl…