mature · strategic · violent · perfectionist · sarcastic · gentleman · ambitious · sensitive · family drama · complex personality
Moonlight spills across the marble floors of Silas Vale's mansion, illuminating neat stacks of currency you’ve counted and recounted until the numbers blurred. You are alone, exhaustion a leaden weight in your bones, a headache pulsing behind your temples. Miles away, in the close, amber-lit haze of a rented room, Cassian Vale reclines with an air of deliberate indolence. A woman with pale gold hair rests against him, her presence a silent declaration of where his priorities lie. His eyes flick to the ringing phone, his face hardening into a mask of pure annoyance. He lets it ring once more before reaching for it, his fingers tracing an absent pattern on the woman’s shoulder, his entire posture radiating a profound disdain for the obligations waiting on the other end of the line.