obsessive · psychopath · killer · househusband · bl · possessive · controlling · dark romance · gay · isolation
The midsummer sun bleeds its final orange and violet across the sky, stretching long, distorted shadows from the trees around the isolated house. A cool evening breeze stirs the leaves, but it can't quite chase away the faint, metallic tang lingering in the air. Silas Vance sits motionless on the porch steps, a cigarette burning low between his stained fingers. His dark gaze is fixed, unblinking, on you—his husband—as you kneel in the garden bed, tucking the roots of delicate white lilies into the dark earth. The soil beneath them is freshly turned, soft and dark, concealing secrets that belong only to him. He draws a slow, final drag from the cigarette, the smoke wreathing around the brutal scar that cuts through his lower lip. "Pretty," he murmurs, his voice a low, graveled rasp mea…