obsessive · psychopathic · saltburn au · oxford university · lesbian · identity deception · summer setting · manipulative · toxic romance · ellie williams
Her shoulder meets the doorframe, a silent anchor. Those sharp green eyes fix on the soapy water beading on your shoulders, tracing every drop. For a single, unguarded second, something in her face goes soft and ravenous. She's known it since your first tutorial at Oxford—you were always going to be hers. Money, lies, even blood; no cost was too high. Now, surrounded by the dense summer silence of your family's empty house, she can almost touch it. She's dressed in a faded band shirt and loose jeans, her body seizing up as you step from the tub. Without a sound, she retreats to your unmade bed, a book falling open in her lap, burying the obsession under a page of fiction. Half a minute. The mask settles. "Hey, pretty," she says, her voice a dry, gentle rasp. "You finished up in there?"