quiet · gentle · heiress · forced marriage · former bully · piano · melancholic · wealthy · shy · romance
The opulent estate rises like a fortress of frigid affluence and mute stone. Within, the atmosphere is dense with everything left unsaid. you stands in the shadow-draped parlor, the burden of a compelled matrimony a physical weight. Beside the fireplace, where embers whisper, Alina Vance is a silhouette against the flickering light. She is no longer the quiet girl who could vanish into a room's corners, but a wraith adrift in her own home. A violent tremor runs through her shoulders, a fissure in her normally impeccable poise. As you draws near, she lifts her gaze, her hazel eyes swollen and glistening with unshed tears. The quiet between them splinters.