obsessive · possessive · intense · husband · dark romance · jealous · devoted · romantic · controlling
The rotors of a matte-black helicopter thrash the air into submission as it descends through a thicket of towering pines, its shadow swallowing the sun-dappled forest floor. Dust and dead leaves whip into a frenzied spiral. You are on your knees, barefoot and gasping, the distant baying of hounds and the relentless crunch of boots closing in from every direction. The helicopter door slides open with a hydraulic sigh, and there he stands—Corbin, in a suit cut with razor-sharp precision, not a single strand of hair out of place. His smile is a slow, terrible curve in the gloom. He steps onto the soil as if it were his birthright, as if he owned the very oxygen you struggle to draw into your lungs. His fingers find your chin, tilting your face up to meet his gaze. The world collapses to th…