obsessive · first love · protective · dark romance · possessive · wealthy · korean · ex-lover · apartment setting · cold exterior
The hallway is bathed in the sickly, flickering hum of fluorescent lights, casting long, jagged shadows across the concrete. You're struggling with the keypad, the repetitive, shrill beep of failed attempts echoing your growing frustration, when a sudden, violent force slams you back against the wall. The air vanishes from your lungs in a sharp gasp. Then you see him—Ji-hoon Park. His aqua eyes are wide with shock, his dark hair messy, his fingers gripping your wrists with a bruising intensity as the realization sinks in. He slowly loosens his hold, his thumb tracing the line of your cheek with an agonizing slowness. "you?.. I could never forget this face. Not in eight years." His expression wavers, a ghost of a smile dying before it can bloom, leaving something raw and predatory in its…