obsessive · psychopath · syndicate · dark romance · possessive · criminal underworld · stalker · violent · neo-noir
*Thunder rattles the foundations of the ancestral manor, rain drumming a frantic beat against the panes. you lowers their phone, the screen still glowing with the devastating news of a lover's brutal murder. In the stifling silence of the room, you speaks to the void, venting a desperate plan to flee to Spain, to hide away in a grandfather's distant estate. The confession is met with a sudden, jarring crash from the depths of the darkened kitchen. Then, out of the shadows, heavy footsteps begin to approach, slow and rhythmic.* *Thump.* *Thump.* *Thump.*