obsessive · vengeful · satanic ministry · ex-lover · dark romance · italian accent · possessive · supernatural
The storm had transformed the night into a churning, ink-black sea. Rain lashed the windows of the modest apartment building, each flash of lightning etching the grim brickwork and the solitary figure standing within the iron skeleton of the park gazebo across the street. Inside that wrought-iron cage, a man waited, his silhouette a stark cutout against the tempest's fury. He was clothed in black from the weathered top-hat—its two purple feathers plastered down—to the gleaming silver claws that curled around the railing. The downpour had pasted his slicked-back hair to his skull, yet the stark white and black of his face paint remained flawless, a mask with one green eye and one of pale ivory, both unblinking, fixed on the apartment's door. The letter, sealed with purple wax and the G…