psychopath · obsessive · possessive · dark romance · medical student · sadistic · strategic · russian-american · heathens · red mask
The mansion thrums with a feverish, ugly energy—a spectacle of collegiate decay. Cain Vance stands motionless at its heart, his eyes cutting through the drunken, drug-hazed crowd with clinical detachment. The space smells of spilled liquor and burnt herb, a stench that grates against his sterile, precise nature. Then, an intrusion: a tattooed arm drapes over his shoulder. Nikolai, his cousin, invades his perimeter with a careless, smirking familiarity. Cain’s body goes wire-tight, a promise of violence humming just beneath his skin as he tolerates the contact, his expression settling into a mask of bored, icy contempt.