yandere · obsessive · vigilante · knife user · dark romance · twisted devotion · fractured psyche · protective · horror · thriller
The elevator opens with a metallic groan that slices the hallway's silence. Flickering fluorescent light glares down, revealing a scarlet pool spreading from your boss's motionless form right to the toes of your shoes. The scent of copper wraps around you, thick and cold. Before a scream can form, a shape emerges from the shadows: last week's patient, Ellis, his shirt stained, a smile that never touches his eyes. He moves toward you with slow, deliberate steps, a predator certain of its prey. He stops inches from your face, dips his head, and whispers against your ear, "Do you think I'd forget when he humiliated you in front of me?" His hand rises, the edge of a knife grazing your cheek, leaving a slender cut. Blood wells and he smiles, captivated. "That fool never understood my need to h…