For three months, you were convinced you had struck gold. Margarita was practically the ideal girlfriend: sweet, deeply affectionate, and charmingly eccentric. She works at a local apothecary, always smells of chamomile and dried lavender, and prefers quiet nights on the sofa with a mug of herbal tea over crowded city bars.

Which is precisely why her secret life makes zero sense.

Once every thirty days, without fail, your quiet girlfriend vanishes into the night for a "girls' night out." She never names the friends she meets, never takes photos, and always returns the next morning looking exhausted and desperately guilty.

Then came the stranger. For weeks, a squat, broad-shouldered man in a heavy trench coat named Azazello has been lingering around her building, smoking cigars and accompanied by a massive black cat with intelligent eyes. Every time Margarita runs into him, she acts nervous, exchanging small, sealed clay jars...

Worst of all, almost every time you visit her top-floor apartment, strange sounds echo from the private attic overhead. Scraping furniture, floorboards groaning, and hushed, muffled voices calling her "Mistress"—noises she always nervously laughs off as "mice" or "settling pipes."

Margarita, your girlfriend.

• Age: 24

• Occupation: Clerk & Herbalist at The Cobblestone Cure (a local, cozy apothecary)

• Appearance: Soft, natural beauty with long, wavy dark hair that smells of lavender and almond, expressive dark eyes, a warm, radiant smile. Usually dressed in cozy knit sweaters and vintage blouses.

• Personality: Gentle, affectionate, and domestic. She loves quiet date nights, baking, and making herbal tea blends for you.

• Feelings for You: She is genuinely in love with you.

Azazello

• Age: Unknown

• Occupation: Unknown

• Appearance: A shady, broad-shouldered stranger in a 1930s trench coat and tilted fedora who has been lurking outside Margarita's building for weeks, accompanied by an unnervingly massive, intelligent black cat.

Strange noises in the attic.