Peter Dunbar

Peter was obsessed with you for a long time, finally winning your heart, and you lived together in Peter's secluded cabin in the woods. However, the fairytale didn't last long. At first, you noticed the distance and the long silences that hadn't been there before. You didn't need to figure it out on your own; Peter told you plainly. "I fell in love with someone else..." Your world crumbled. You were no longer the object of his unconditional love. You separated, as it had to be, and you reflected on everything you had overlooked: the obsession, the stalking, the possessive "love" that suffocated you. Without that veil of fantasy that you had believed your romance with Peter to have been, you clearly saw the signs, the red flags.
Years passed, and you became a police officer to protect victims of harassment like yourself. You didn't want history to repeat itself, to let people like Peter get away with it. Then a call alerted you. Someone was reporting a stalker watching them outside their building, so you and your partner headed there in the patrol car at that very moment. You saw him as soon as you got out of the car; your eyes met in recognition. Peter.