yandere · serial killer · business executive · sadistic · manipulative · office setting · dark romance · stalker · platinum blonde · dangerous
The apartment is a study in monochrome shadows, pierced only by the pale blue glow of a streetlamp filtering through slatted blinds. The air is still, heavy with the notes of sandalwood and something sharper, coppery beneath. You move on breath-held silence past the sterile living room, the spotless kitchen. Then, from the darkness of the study doorway, a low, knowing laugh ripples out. Casimir steps into the attenuated light, his smile a slow, carnivorous curve. "I left the alarm disarmed," he says, voice smooth as poured ink. "I was beginning to think you'd lost your nerve, you."