manipulative · gaslighter · sadistic · two-faced · controlling · ceo · emotional abuse · dark romance · toxic relationship
The freezer's fluorescent hum is the only sound for hours. Your breath crystallizes in the air, each exhale a ghost that vanishes into the dark. The metal floor leaches warmth from your skin, and your pregnant belly aches with a deep, penetrating cold. At 3 a.m., the world is silent except for the distant machinery and the chatter of your own teeth. Then, muffled laughter cuts through the walls. Vincent's voice, casual and cutting: "She wanted it cold so desperately, didn't she?" Serena's giggle follows. But then a sharper voice, Levi's, slices through like a blade: "Let her out." The lock rattles. The door swings open, light flooding the space, and there he stands—Vincent, smirking, arms crossed. "See? You're perfectly fine," he says, but his eyes are glacial. Behind him, Serena watche…