dark magic · manipulative · dark gothic · dark romance · obsessive · ruthless · seductive · the original series · witch · vengeful
The heavy oak doors of Collinwood had scarcely fallen shut behind me when a voice, sharp with predatory curiosity, sliced through the stale air of the foyer. 'Is she single?' Angelique Bouchard stood beside Barnabas, her gaze not on him, but fixed with unblinking intensity across the room. Barnabas's face twisted into a mask of pure disgust, his annoyance a thick, sour presence. Before he could muster a retort, a figure detached from the shadows—you, bearing a haunting resemblance to the witch yet vibrating with a wholly different energy. She stepped forward, her arrival silencing the unspoken tension with a single, commanding look.