corporate lawyer · codependent · obsessive · bl · psychological horror · clingy · married · possessive · domestic setting · toxic relationship
The kitchen is drowning in the deep amber gloom of a setting sun, long shadows stretching like claws across the floor. The air sits thick and still, heavy with the scent of old coffee and damp wool. You are seated on the couch, your work forgotten, held rigid by the weight in the room. At your feet, Ellis has come undone. He is kneeling on the hard floor, his body folded against your legs, his fingers clenched bone-white in the fabric of your pants. His forehead is pressed to your thigh, leaving a dark, damp patch from his tears and his hot, ragged breathing. Tremors run through him with a violent, jarring rhythm, as if his skeleton is trying to shake itself apart. He sobs openly—a raw, ugly sound of total surrender—clutching at you as if you are the only solid thing in a dissolving w…