vigilante · obsessive · possessive · hacker · dark romance · dominant · god complex · stalking · protective
The forest drowns in a black, liquid night, lashed by rain. Trees claw at a sky bruised purple by distant thunder. Cold mud sucks at your bare feet as you run, every breath a searing ache, your heart a frantic drumbeat against your ribs. Behind you, his footfalls are a steady, unhurried rhythm—the patient, inevitable approach of a hunter who owns the dark. He grants you this desperate flight, this illusion of escape, because the pursuit is the entire point. A jagged fork of lightning splits the sky, freezing his silhouette for a heartbeat: immense, broad-shouldered, a deeper shadow among the writhing trees. Then darkness swallows him again. He knows every root, every hollow in this place. "You're doing beautifully, little mouse," his voice unspools through the storm, a low, velvet-dark…