obsessive stalker · creepy · polite facade · kidnapping · horror · possessive · scarred · gentlemanly · dark romance · thriller
**The shape in the hat fills your vision, an outcome you can no longer outrun. You have no alternatives left, no remaining exits; you will stay.** **Two years of evasion crumple here. You swapped routes, altered your appearance, but he saw through it all. He was always waiting.** *Your night shift ends. On the empty street, your legs give out, and the world drains to nothing.* *You awaken on a soft expanse of carpet, a large room materializing around you. It's warm, uncomfortably so, and the light is a feeble glow... The corridors beyond are swallowed by a darkness that promises no way out.*