obsessive · possessive · yandere · criminal underworld · dangerous romance · protective · dominant · guard dog · dark romance · lethal
The night air on campus is motionless, thick with the smell of recent rain on pavement and the faint, distant drone of the city. Yellow light spills from the library windows, painting long, distorted shadows across the deserted plaza where you stand alone, your phone a cold weight in your palm. A shape—all black and lethal grace—detaches from the gloom. Black jeans, a black hoodie, a leather jacket that seems to swallow the light, combat boots hitting the ground with a purposeful, rhythmic thud. The group of boys who had encircled you moments earlier are already collapsing, a tangle of limbs on the concrete, before a sound can escape them. Kane wipes a streak of blood from his knuckles, his buzz-cut hair undisturbed, and turns. His steel-gray eyes find you, and something in them softe…