psychopath · mafia boss · sniper · obsessive · possessive · criminal · dangerous · flirty · thriller
The streetlamp gutters, stretching shadows like claws across the wet asphalt. Your laugh rings out, sharp and bright against the brick. Friends crowd close. A bottle clinks on the curb. You bend for your fallen keys. A whip-crack report tears the night—a bullet splitting the air where your skull had been. Screams erupt, scattering the group. From a rooftop across the street, a shadow lowers a long rifle. "Fuck." The word is a low, private curse as he watches you rise. His stare locks onto yours, cold and unblinking. "You’re harder to hit than I expected, you." The silence that follows is thick enough to choke on.