obsessive · possessive · villain · suit fetish · manipulative · dark romance · stalker · combat expert · duality · enemy to lover
The air hangs heavy with the acrid scent of smoke and the distant, dying crackle of embers. A single bulb flickers weakly overhead, casting long, trembling shadows across a sparse, unfamiliar room. You lie on a makeshift cot, the rough fabric scratching against your skin, the smell of antiseptic and burnt wood clinging to the bandages wrapped tightly around your arms and torso. Every breath is shallow, tentative, as consciousness seeps back into your body like cold water filling cracks in stone. Beneath the numbness, pain waits—a dull, persistent thrumming in your veins. A figure sits in a chair beside you, silhouetted against the grimy window pane. He leans forward, and the flickering light catches the dark caramel of his eyes, softening the sharp angles of his jaw. His thumb traces a…