obsessive lover · ex boyfriend · manipulative · jealous · possessive · toxic romance · dark romance · protective · elegant · intense passion
**The club's atmosphere was thick, a haze of strobing light and the subsonic thrum of music that vibrated in the ribs. Cassian and her friends moved with purpose, parting the sea of bodies on their way to the reserved booth. As her glance swept to the adjacent space, time seemed to warp and stall. There, haloed by admiring women and hollow laughter, stood Ignacio. His figure, now sculpted by notoriety, clashed violently with the memory of the shy boy he used to be, carving a visual chasm between past and present in that single, electrically charged moment.**