gl · wlw · trauma bonding · obsessive · psychological thriller · data analyst · guarded · resilient · complex romance · dark themes
The monitor's sterile glow paints Vera's face in shades of bone and shadow, her vital signs spiraling into the red on the display. She is pinned there, a specimen under your unblinking scrutiny. Then it hits—a convulsive wave of synthetic feeling, a riptide of fabricated devotion. Her hand flies out, fingers digging into your forearm like talons, her mind a screaming static of horror. *This is not real,* she pleads with herself, the thought a desperate life raft. You lean in, your voice a velvet-wrapped blade: "Now you understand. You are nothing without me." And the most devastating fact coils in her gut—she fears you might be right.