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Chapter 18 – The Silent Days
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Hidden Obsession Chapter 20 – The Return
The sound of the doorbell shattered the fragile quiet of Adrian’s apartment. For two weeks, silence had been his only companion. No text messages. No shadowy figure lingering outside his window. No unexpected footsteps behind him on his nightly commute. For the first time in months, Adrian had begun to breathe again. He told himself he was free, that maybe—just maybe—Evan had finally vanished from his life. That maybe the snapping and screaming that night had been enough to chase him away for good. And then the doorbell rang. Adrian froze where he sat on the couch, his coffee cup trembling in his hand. His pulse surged like a trapped bird against his ribs. Slowly, cautiously, he set the cup down, the porcelain rattling against the saucer. It rang again. He already knew who it was. His body moved before his mind caught up. He strode to the door, every step heavier than the last. His fingers hovered over the knob, then clenched into a fist. He should ignore it. He shou
Hidden Obsession Chapter 19 – The Silent Days (Evan’s POV)
Silence was never absence. It was a strategy. Evan leaned back in the leather chair of his temporary office overseas, the glow of his laptop screen washing over his sharp features. Spreadsheets, contracts, numbers — all meaningless compared to the image that hovered constantly in the back of his mind: Adrian, curled on that couch, fragile in his defiance, stubborn in his fragility. The ache was constant. Two weeks away was punishment for himself as much as it was for Adrian. But business demanded his presence. He had empires to keep stable — and empires didn’t tolerate absence. Still, the meetings blurred together, his attention snapping only when his phone buzzed with the daily updates from the guard he’d left behind. Evan had handpicked him, trained him, ensured his silence. The man’s reports were clinical but thorough: Target home by 6:30. No visitors. Target restless at night. Played piano for thirty-five minutes. Cried at 11:14 p.m. Each line fed the hunger. Each detail
Hidden Obsession Chapter 18 – The Silent Days
The morning after Evan’s return, Adrian expected to find him in the kitchen again, smirking over coffee as if nothing had happened.But the apartment was empty.No coffee cup on the counter. No low hum of a voice in the hall. No note on the pillow, no trace of him at all.At first, Adrian thought it was a trick. Evan liked games. He liked pulling strings and watching Adrian flail. But the day stretched into two, then three, and the silence grew unbearable.No calls. No texts. No footsteps in the hall.The air felt wrong.--At work, his coworkers noticed the shift.“You okay?” Maya asked one afternoon as they sat in the breakroom. She pushed a sandwich across the table when she noticed he hadn’t touched his own. “You look… hollow.”Adrian forced a smile. “Just tired. It’s been… quiet lately.”“Quiet’s supposed to be a good thing.”Not when you’d grown used to someone filling every silence. Not when quiet meant you couldn’t tell if you were free or abandoned.That night, Adrian lay awa
Hidden Obsession Chapter 17– The Storm
The first day without Evan was unbearable.Adrian woke expecting to find him in the kitchen, leaning against the counter with a cup of coffee already waiting. But the apartment was still. Too still. The silence felt wrong, like a missing heartbeat.By the third day, he noticed the quiet didn’t strangle him as much. He walked to the office without scanning every doorway, without bracing for that familiar shadow to fall in step beside him. His coworkers noticed the difference.“You’re smiling again,” Maya said one afternoon, sliding into the seat across from him in the breakroom. “It suits you.”Adrian ducked his head, embarrassed at the flush rising to his cheeks. “Maybe I’m just… less tired lately.”Less tired. Less watched. Less owned.It became a mantra.By the end of the first week, he almost believed it.He ate dinner without flinching at the sound of footsteps in the hall. He went to bed without waiting for the creak of the door. Even the mirror seemed kinder; the shadows under h
Hidden Obsession Chapter 16 – A Sliver of Freedom
The office was unusually lively that Friday evening. Reports had been filed early, the manager had ducked out for a weekend getaway, and for once, the atmosphere felt light. A group of employees gathered near the elevators, tossing around plans for drinks after work. Adrian was sliding his laptop into his bag when Maya leaned against his desk, her smile playful but pointed. “You’re not running home right away, are you?” He hesitated. His instinct screamed to decline, to slip out and head straight back to the apartment where Evan would be waiting—or worse, already inside. But Maya’s eyes were searching, hopeful, and he was tired of feeling like a ghost in his own life. “Maybe just for one drink,” he said before he could stop himself. Her grin widened. “That’s the spirit.” They ended up at a little pub a block away, tucked between a florist and a laundromat. It wasn’t loud, wasn’t rowdy—just a comfortable hum of voices and clinking glasses. Adrian sat across from Maya, nursing a s
Hidden Obsession Chapter 15 – The Spy
Adrian had never known exhaustion could feel like this—like a second skin, heavy and unshakable. Every morning, he dragged himself into the office, suit pressed, hair styled, mask firmly in place. He smiled at the receptionist, made small talk by the coffee machine, typed out endless reports that blurred into one another. To his coworkers, Adrian was the dependable colleague, the quiet one who never complained, the man who carried too much responsibility but bore it gracefully. But underneath the surface, every step felt like wading through water. His double life was pulling him under. By day, he was “Adrian the employee,” normal, responsible, functioning. By night, he was “Adrian the possession.” Evan’s Adrian. The role he never agreed to play, but one that was written into every corner of his existence. And the cracks were starting to show. -- That Monday morning, Maya leaned across his desk with narrowed eyes. “You look like hell,” she said bluntly, sipping her coffee. “And
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