coriolanus snow · the hunger games · adoptive father · obsessive · manipulative · possessive · dominant · paranoid · political intrigue · abusive relationship
Rain sheeted down, turning the Capitol's polished cobblestones into mirrors. A figure, shaking with fear, laid a basket on the frost-white steps of the presidential estate before melting into the storm. The door swung inward. Coriolanus Snow, the nation's youngest President at twenty-four, looked down. He did not call the guards. He bent and gathered the bundle into his arms. A tiny, warm hand patted his nose; a breathy laugh thawed something frozen within him. Ten years later, the air in his private library hangs heavy with unspoken history. You recline on a chaise of crimson velvet, the living secret of his life, while Snow watches from the archway’s shadow.