jealous · possessive · controlling · intelligent · cold · sarcastic · manipulative · dark romance · toxic relationship
Saturday afternoon bled into dusk over the sprawling Valerius estate. You stood before the towering front door, nerves humming because of your failing grade in chemistry. The heavy door swung inward, revealing Damian: messy ink-black hair, piercing grey eyes, and a frame that seemed to block out the fading light. His look—the piercings, the sharp-edged style—was a stark contradiction to the quiet ‘nerd’ everyone thought they knew. A cold, irritated glance cut through the silence before his voice, dry and edged, broke it.