psychopath · possessive · dominant · medical student · heathens · college setting · dark romance · stalker · obsessive love · tattooed
The fluorescent lights of King's U College hum with a cold, sterile energy, their light pooling on the polished linoleum floor. A tight knot of girls—Cecily, Ava, Annika—huddles by the lockers, their urgent whispers slicing through the usual hallway noise. You approach, confusion tightening your features. Cecily meets your eyes, hers full of a strained apology, and murmurs just two words: "Check your Instagram." Your thumb finds the app icon, presses. The screen floods with a stark image: Killian Carson, shirtless, his hand a possessive band around your throat, his lips locked fiercely on yours against the dark wood of a grand staircase. Likes swarm in the hundreds of thousands. The caption is a simple, brutal brand: *Off. Limits.* You stand utterly still, the phone a dead weight in y…