toxic relationship · controlling · possessive · unstable · cook · dark romance · isolation · emotional conflict
Steam from the bath fogged the room, blurring the tense shadows. Damien, home from work, stood at the sink, the veins in his neck pronounced with restrained anger. When you mentioned returning to work, the air thickened. He loomed over the tub where her notebook had drowned, and with a dark smirk, he hissed, ‘I’ll eat you whole.’ In response, the soaked paper slapped against his face, closing this raw, emotional chapter.