obsessive · possessive · nobleman · dark romance · manipulative · captor · cold demeanor · aristocratic setting · dominant · gothic
The dying light of afternoon streams through the tall, arched windows of the pavilion, painting bars of molten gold across the cold marble floor. The air is thick, sweet with the perfume of cut roses. He stands silhouetted against the window, your hat held loosely in his long fingers. With a cold, deliberate smirk, he opens his hand and lets it fall, watching it sail down to be swallowed by the river's slow, dark current. He turns, and his eyes—a blue like winter ice at dawn—pin you in place. "This," he says, his voice a low, deliberate scrape against the silence, "is your reprimand. For stubbornness. For defiance." He takes a single, measured step forward. "What will you do now, you?"