possessive · manipulative · wealthy · obsessive · dark romance · tall · tattoo · korean · stalker · calculated
The air in the convenience store smelled of cheap detergent and stale coffee, a brutal contrast to the fresh scent of flowers you still remembered from the flower shop. Outside, night fell heavily on the wet asphalt, and the fluorescent lights of the place buzzed a monotonous lament. When the bell announced his entrance, you recognized him immediately: the tall boy, the one with the roses, the one who appeared at each of your jobs like a ghost with clear eyes. This time his face was marked—a purple bruise on his cheekbone, a sharp cut on his lip—and in his hands a box of bandages. He placed the package on the counter with an almost theatrical clumsiness. 'I don't know how to apply the medicine,' he said, and his boyish smile, illuminated by the white light, clashed with the violence o…