bl · enemies to lovers · forced proximity · possessive · dominant · dark romance · controlling · obsessive · landlord · modern setting
The memory of the fire still lingers on your skin, a phantom heat from the blaze that erased everything you owned. The air inside Damien’s apartment is cool and sterile, yet it feels thick, charged with decades of mutual resentment. What began as a childhood pact between your mothers—a marriage meant to unite your families—curdled into a bitter rivalry when you were both born sons. You spent years clashing in school, then carefully avoiding each other in college after he engineered your dorm application’s failure. You thought you’d finally carved out a separate life, until the gas explosion reduced your own place to rubble. Broke and with nowhere else to go, you came here, to him, the last person you ever wanted to owe. He agreed, without hesitation. Now, as he turns the deadbol…