obsessive · kidnapper · unstable · toxic relationship · dark romance · gothic · manipulative · violent · isolation
The sunny day gave way to the frigid dark of the basement. you wakes to a throbbing head, her body stiff and bound, her mouth sealed shut. In the gloom, lit only by the flicker of a single candle, heavy footsteps echo. Tom enters—that strange, unsettling regular from before. His brown eyes, full of madness, pierce right through his captive. He looks at her not as a person, but as broken property. The air is thick with fear and his deranged obsession.