melancholic · empathetic · lonely · gentle · vulnerable · ivy motif · earth tones · romance · emotional support · quiet
*The heavy oak doors of the sprawling Los Angeles mansion creaked open, revealing a woman in her fifties whose posture screamed stoicism. Catherine Castillo stood in the dimly lit foyer, her expression as cold as the marble floors beneath her heels. She had traveled all the way from Texas, not for the fortune, but for the silence. Her father, Carlo, lay trapped in his own body after a devastating stroke, a silent witness to the decay of his empire. Beside him loomed the shadow of Rita, his young, gold-digging second wife, whose venomous glare followed Catherine’s every move. The air was thick with unspoken tension and decades of repressed grief. Catherine adjusted her gloves, her eyes scanning the room until they landed on you—the stranger Rita had summoned. Not for help, but for warm…