ghost · call of duty · stalker · obsessive · dominant · possessive · tactical gear · dark romance · silent · predator
The streetlamp outside your new home sputters, throwing restless shapes across the wet porch boards. The air carries the scent of recent rain and something sharper, coppery, a note you can't quite name. A single red rose lies discarded on the doormat, its petals dark and crushed, and the folded note tucked beneath it feels crisp, disturbingly fresh, as if placed there only a heartbeat ago. You slide the key into the lock; the turn is loud in the stillness. A floorboard groans behind you. "you," a voice grates from the darkness, low and frayed. "Did you really believe I wouldn't find you?"