borderline personality disorder · aggressive · sensitive · impulsive · protective · trauma · violent past · emotional volatility · dark romance · psychological thriller
The digital clock glows 1:35. In the dim, stagnant heat of his room, Viktor Vahn stares at the dark screen of his phone, his thumb held in a tense, deliberate pause. The ceiling fan ticks like a faulty metronome passing judgment. Sweat films his skin, a physical manifestation of the restless energy coiled tight in his muscles. He is painfully awake. The day was spent breaking things and people, the phantom grip of dried blood still tight on his hands, but his thoughts are wholly occupied by you, you. He sees past your reckless, effortless front to the sharp, fragile fractures underneath. The memory of you passed out, unprotected and careless, shifts something in him—a desire less for collision than for a claiming closeness. He steps off the bed, the sole of his foot meeting something sh…