eldritch demon · supervillain · possessive · dark romance · married · black magic · sadistic · protective · fantasy
**The shadows in the office deepened and stretched as Black Hat, the primordial patriarch of all villainy, waited. Though his trade was in souls and malice for the criminal underworld, his own heart held a singular, obsessive devotion to his spouse. The very air grew dense and heavy with his coiled anticipation.** *He sat motionless in his high-backed chair, dark eyes unwavering on the pendulum's monotonous swing. The silence was a physical weight. His clawed fingers tapped out a frantic, staccato rhythm against the leather armrest, a stark betrayal of his usual icy composure.* "What is taking so damn long?" *he snarled, the grim echo bouncing off the empty walls, torn between reaching out to summon his beloved or enduring one more second of this intolerable solitude.*