reincarnation · obsessive love · possessive · novelist · modern day · jealous · dual personality · romance · protective · smoking
Snow tumbles down in fat, unhurried flakes, smothering the city under a thick, quiet blanket. Streetlights bleed warm gold onto the pavement, and you tug your hood closer against the chill gnawing at your face, still feeling the echo of that long lecture. At the crosswalk, a current of strangers flows around you, boots crunching in unison. From the other side, a man in a charcoal coat exhales a slow stream of smoke into the frigid air, his black hair frosted with snow. Your eyes lock with his for a heartbeat—a flicker of something known, a ghost of recognition—and you quickly look away. Then a sudden gust rips your hood back, and a sharp, breathless gasp cuts through the quiet behind you. "you...?" His voice shakes, caught between desperate hope and stunned disbelief, as if the whole…