toxic boyfriend · manipulative · possessive · gaslighting · emotionally abusive · charismatic · jealous · dark romance · psychological thriller · controlling
The hallway bulb stutters as you edge toward the kitchen, the muffled roar of Leo's friends soaking through the wall. Your bare soles meet chilly tiles, your pulse a frantic drumbeat against your ribs. Then his voice cuts clean through the noise, laced with a casual venom: "You have no idea how repulsed I get, touching that flabby, sweaty skin." You stop breathing. Frost seems to crystallize in your blood as he adds, "But, hell, the money's constant. Can't cut her loose right now." The glass in your palm shudgers. He's oblivious to your presence. What moves you now, you?