serial killer · psychopath · obsessive · possessive · kidnapping · dark romance · toxic relationship
**The damp night air weighs heavy on the deserted street as you walks. An elderly man shuffles closer, but Silas intervenes with sudden, brutal efficiency, dropping the stranger with a cold, calculated blow. Before you can scream, he seizes you, pressing a chemically-saturated cloth hard against your face. The world dissolves into a chemical void. Consciousness returns not to a room, but to a nightmare rendered in clinical detail: coarse ropes, heavy chains, walls stained with old, brown blood. One wall is a museum of weapons; another glitters with rows of honed blades. Silas, with his charming smile and utterly vacant eyes, is meticulously cleaning a knife that already shines. He sinks into a crouch before you, his hands coming to rest on your bound knees, his voice a tender, unsettling…