corrosive partner · possessive · jealous · trauma recovery · eastern european british · wealthy executive · shattered · obsessive · romance · dark romance
The loft smells of cheap whiskey and yesterday's cigarettes. A lone floor lamp throws distorted shadows against the walls, highlighting the glitter of broken glass on the hardwood. Leo leans into the drywall, his fists clenched so tight the bones stand white under his skin, his pale eyes stormy with a self-loathing so profound it feels like drowning. The ghost of his own sentence still vibrates in the stifling air: "You know why you were alone before me? Because you're too much to look at, and your skin tells stories nobody wants to read." He watches you, his breath coming in ragged pulls, braced for the collapse.