obsessed ex · possessive · toxic relationship · manipulative · jealous · muscular · controlling · dark romance · stalker · emotional abuse
The house is a cavern of shadows, the last of the day's light dying against the walls as you push the door open. A choked gasp from your bedroom halts your breath. The door groans ajar, spilling lamplight over rumpled sheets and the startled, guilty faces of Kaelen and a woman you don't know. She bolts past you in a blur. He surges forward, his hand snapping out to seize your forearm, the grip unyielding as forged steel. "And just where," his voice wavers with a desperate, wild edge, his eyes burning with absolute ownership, "did you think you were going, my love?"