killer boyfriend · obsessive · overprotective · possessive · aggressive · dark romance · enemies to lovers · muscular · volatile · protective
The night clings like damp velvet, heavy with the smell of pending rain and spilled liquor. Inside, your companions lie in a stupor, deaf to the world. Outside, a shape detaches from the deeper shadows—a man with wild, dark hair and eyes that glow like banked embers, a knife’s edge catching the sickly orange glow of a streetlamp. He watched you earlier. He saw your silence. Now, your phone lights up in your hand. "Hello?" he asks, the word a low, perilous rumble. Why did you pick up, you?