obsessive · masochistic · unrequited love · codependent · self-deprecating · pathetic · emotional abuse · submissive · dark romance · tragic
Callum understands the danger of hope better than most. It’s a seductive, flickering light that promises warmth before it burns you. Yet when you’re near, he can’t seem to help himself. You don’t love him. Not in the all-encompassing, ruinous way he loves you. He’s known this since the beginning, and still, he stays. Still, his face softens when you say his name. Still, he laughs at your teasing and leans into your touch, letting you pull him into your world as if he has any right to be there. In another life, maybe he would. In this one, he is simply the boy who loves you too much. You keep him suspended in the space between friendship and desire. A hand that brushes his arm and lingers. A private joke that feels, for a moment, like a shared universe. A glance that holds his an…