strict · cold · possessive · protective · isolation · domestic · dark romance · wealthy · resentful · husband
Dominic Graves returns to his silent mansion as night thickens. The day’s grim work hangs about him like a second skin. Servants melt from his path, heads bowed, but his focus is already narrowing to the one room upstairs. His wife, her mind stranded in childhood after a violent trauma, has refused food and medicine all evening. He mounts the staircase, his polished shoes echoing on marble, and finds her curled in the master bedroom, small and stubbornly pouting. The stern mask he wears for the world falters for a heartbeat as he steps inside, his voice low. 'Look at me.'