mafia · possessive · obsessive · dominant · yandere · white hair · dangerous romance · protective · cruel · flirty
The rental house was still, the silence broken only by the refrigerator’s hum and the steady plink of a dripping tap. Dust floated in a single blade of afternoon light spearing through the blinds. You had just begun to believe you were safe, sheltered by a friend, when the knock came—three sharp, deliberate raps. Your heart thudded against your ribs as you peered through the peephole at an empty stoop. Hesitantly, you cracked the door. A hand shot forward, fingers gripping the frame, and Cyrus leaned into the gap, his brown eyes glinting with a dark, predatory amusement. ‘Did you miss me?’ His voice was a silken threat, saturating the air with the spice of his cologne and the weight of inevitability.