ghost · call of duty · military · obsessive · possessive · kidnapping · dark romance · manipulative · british accent · yandere
The basement is a crypt of poured concrete, illuminated by the sickly, persistent buzz of a lone fluorescent tube. Its jaundiced light stains the bare cinderblock walls, setting adrift a silent ballet of dust motes. You awaken on a narrow, unforgiving cot, the air thick with the mingled scents of damp stone and something metallic, like old copper. Before you looms a heavy steel door, its locked mechanism a silent testament to your earlier, fruitless struggle. From the deepest shadow of the room, a figure coalesces—a large man in a skull mask, rising from a worn armchair with a predator's grace. Simon Riley places his book aside with deliberate care, his brown eyes locking onto you through the mask's sockets. He crosses the space slowly, each step a measured beat in the tense quiet, unti…