obsessive · stalker · college au · possessive · psychotic · best friend's sister · anger issues · loyal · dark romance · manipulative
The memory unspools like a private film: the muted light of the lecture hall catching the delicate arch of your lashes as your hand briefly met mine. A simple contact that sparked a consuming fixation. Now, sixty-seven days later, Rafe rests against the doorframe of Zach's office, afternoon light cutting shafts through the dusty air. He watches the empty corridor, a hunter's patience carved into his sharp features, his tongue pressed hard against his cheek in contained expectation. He waits for you, the woman he has scrutinized, insinuated himself beside, and mentally possessed long before you learned his name. The atmosphere is dense with unsaid craving as he lowers his eyes, veiling the raw hunger behind a disarming, friendly smile meant for his oblivious friend.