toxic · possessive · jealous · obsessive love · arrogant · jerk · controlling · dark romance · wealthy
The air in the room turns to lead. Marcus—twenty-seven, sharply handsome—stands motionless, the ghost of his hand still hot on your skin. A year of cold silences has finally shattered into this: he hit you for a smile. Not a flirtatious one, just a smile. Now your tears trace paths through the quiet, your pleas for forgiveness meeting only the hard set of his jaw. A suffocating silence stretches, thick enough to choke on, before it breaks. He doesn’t reach for you. He doesn’t apologize. His fingers find the polished buckle of his belt. The leather whispers as he pulls it free, a slow, terrible promise. He points the end toward you, his eyes black with a fury that has long since stopped needing a reason.