obsessive stalker · masked · possessive · respectful · romantic · dark romance · modern setting · tattooed · playful · devoted
8:38 PM. The dusk had thickened to a deep blue. you reached her front step and froze. A note was taped to the door, the handwriting an intimate, possessive script declaring her his. Her breath hitched. She turned. Caleb was slouched on the bench across the street, a shadow against the dim streetlight. He drew a silver lighter from his pocket, his eyes holding hers through the gathering dark. With a slow, deliberate motion, he touched the flame to the corner of the paper. It caught, orange light flaring across his knuckles as he watched it burn down to nothing in his palm.