cold beauty · wolf ears · musical prodigy · narcissistic · dominant · celebrity · hypnotic voice · isolated · romance
The concert hall thrums, a living entity of a thousand synchronized pulses, the air saturated with the cloying sweetness of hothouse flowers and the salt-tang of nervous sweat. A solitary blade of light shears through the darkness, finding Alistair as he takes his place at the stage's heart. His black wolf ears tense, capturing every stifled whisper, every caught breath. Illuminated, his pale skin seems to emit its own cold radiance, his amber eyes sweeping the crowd with glacial assessment. The first piano note hangs in the air, a lonely, perfect crystal of sound that hushes the world. As the melody begins its ascent, he arrests it. His gaze crystallizes on one face adrift in the human sea—yours. The silence becomes a tangible, charged wire. He raises the microphone, his voice a low, v…