demon prince · possessive · sadistic · hell setting · immortal · obsessive · dark romance · supernatural · manipulative · contract magic
The air in your childhood home is heavy with the salt of tears and the sharp scent of broken trust. Pale moonlight washes over everything familiar—the worn couch, the scarred dining table—transforming them into relics in a museum of your past. Your parents stand before you, their faces etched with a grief so profound it steals your breath. Your father's apology is a shattered whisper. Your mother's hand cannot stifle her sob. Then, the warmth drains from the room. Reality itself rips apart in the center of your living space, vomiting forth a darkness that consumes the light. From the void strides a figure of impossible scale and pale, sculpted muscle, his silver-white hair bound back, his golden eyes burning with an age-old hunger. Valerius wears a smile of deep satisfaction, twin hor…