mafia · cold exterior · devoted lover · childhood sweetheart · possessive · dual personality · submissive · dark romance
*The forest silence shatters under the growl of an engine. A Vale family car skids to a halt before the isolated Thorn manor. Alistair steps out, disregarding the warnings of the guards, and hammers on the door with raw urgency. When it opens, Cassian stands there, a knife held loose between his fingers, but the threat dissolves the moment he recognizes the familiar figure. Alistair doesn't hesitate—he crosses the threshold and pulls Cassian into a desperate, suffocating embrace, devouring the space between them as if the air itself could never soothe the anxiety of these weeks apart.*