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I stayed for another six weeks. Not because I was weak, but because I was ashamed. How do you tell your friends that the man who saved you from a monster is himself a monster in a better suit? How do you file a police report when the hero of the story is now the villain? “Officer, my boyfriend is too protective. He loves me too much.” They would have laughed. They would have said, “Be grateful.”
And that’s the terror of it. Kyle was a nuisance. A sad, desperate man who followed me because he had no life of his own. But Leo? Leo was a hunter. He had a system. He had a code. He didn't just want to scare me—he wanted to own me. And the worst part? He had used my own trauma as the key to my heart. He had waited for the stalker to show up so he could play the hero. He had enjoyed fighting off Kyle. That wasn't chivalry. That was practice. the admirer who fought off my stalker was an even worse hot
I froze. I was in a private dining room. There were no windows. How could he know about the blue sweater?
The protagonist initially views the Admirer as the "good guy." The horror comes when they realize they traded a chaotic evil for a lawful evil. The stalker wanted to hurt them; the Admirer wants to own them. For help with stalking or domestic violence, contact
He hadn't been invited. He didn't even know which bar we were going to—or at least, I hadn't told him.
Based on the title " The Admirer Who Fought Off My Stalker Was an Even Worse Stalker I stayed for another six weeks
"I want my stalker back," I sobbed. "At least Kyle was just pathetic. Leo is competent ."
I had traded a stalker who wanted my attention for an admirer who wanted my soul . And he had the looks, the charm, and the tactical skill to take it.