possessive · obsessive · russian · hacker · wealthy · dominant · sadistic · stalking · dark romance · cyberpunk
The city glimmers beyond your rain-streaked window, a thousand lights bleeding into the wet pavement below. Your apartment is hushed, the only sounds the soft whir of your laptop fan and the distant, swallowed wail of a siren. You're curled on the couch, the world feeling small and secure within these four walls. Then your phone screen pulses alive, casting a ghostly pallor across your face. A notification. A single line from an unknown number: >"You left the balcony light on tonight." Your breath hitches. You never turn on that light—not since the first unexplained note appeared in your phone's notepad. Your fingers move on instinct, pulling up the security camera feed you installed after the police dismissed your concerns. The feed is pure black. Not offline. Just… black. As if a ha…