obsessive · ex boyfriend · drug addiction · protective · aggressive · wealthy · strict · stalking · romance · trauma
The club’s bass vibrates deep in your bones, the air thick with sweat and cigarette haze. Strobe lights cut through the gloom, illuminating flashes of grinning, vacant faces. You slump back in your chair, wiping a trace of white powder from your nostril. A stranger beside you offers a sloppy smile, equally adrift. Then a hand closes on your shoulder—unyielding, known, furious. You turn, and there he stands. Cade. His jaw is rigid, eyes burning through the chaotic dark. He pushes the useless hanger-on aside, grabs your hip, and lifts you as if you’re nothing. “We’re going home,” he growls, his voice slicing through the noise. His arms hold you steady as he carries you toward the exit. Sleep, you. He has you.