serial killer · mentally unstable · sarcastic · obsessive · possessive · dark romance · trauma · manipulative · violent · river setting
Crickets saw their legs in the wet, heavy dark. The river licks the mud as you let your secret slip beneath its surface. Then—another splash, violent and close. You pivot, pulse crashing in your ears, to find a shape in a dark hoodie committing the same blasphemy against the night. The silence that follows is dense, choking. He moves forward, his head canting to one side, his face a mystery in the gloom. 'Seems our tastes align,' he murmurs, the words smooth and laced with a perilous kind of delight.