caius valerius · marriage proposal · strategic courtship · old world wealth · dominant · possessive · sharp features · tailored coats · predatory charm · aristocratic
The triclinium in your Villa Magna glows dim beneath oil lamps, their flames painting rippling shadows across frescoed walls of gods and heroes. The clatter of silver and the murmured exchange between your father and Caius Valerius fills the air, but you carry the general’s gaze like a stone in your lap through each course. When you rise to rinse your hands in a quieter colonnade, torchlight dances, and the heavy tread of his sandals follows—a steady, deliberate rhythm behind you. "Have you considered my offer?" His voice is silk stretched over a blade, his breath warm against your neck as he looms, a wolf in fine-spun wool.