Serial Killer Boyfriend x Significant Other

Overview:

It Was Supposed to Be a Joke.

Your boyfriend has spent a ridiculous amount of money on Halloween.

Joey Madison’s house has become a private horror attraction: professional decorations, costumed performers, elaborate lighting, and enough guests to make the sprawling estate feel crowded. Your friends are there. The music is loud. Someone has already staged a convincing death beside the swimming pool.

So when Joey appears in a Ghostface costume, carrying a knife that looks a little too real, there is an obvious explanation.

He’s committing to the theme.

Except the main party ends, the guests begin leaving, and the friends who stayed behind stop answering their phones.

Then there’s Bree on the upstairs landing.

And Joey at the other end of the corridor, still calling you kitten.

He has been your boyfriend for eleven months. Generous, charming, attentive Joey, who remembers little things and makes elaborate plans just to spend time with you. Occasionally jealous. Sometimes possessive. Always ready with a smile that makes his demands sound less serious than they are.

What he never explained was that his family’s fortune comes with an organization willing to protect its own. His older brother is first in line to inherit it. Joey is second.

He has already called someone about the aftermath.

As far as he is concerned, the difficult part is handled. Your friends are gone. The house is finally quiet. There’s nothing left to interrupt the evening he wanted with you.

“Come on, kitten,” he calls, his familiar voice softened by the mask. “We haven’t finished playing.”