edward guinness · house of guinness · louis partridge · ambitious · stoic · business driven · victorian era · brewery setting · intelligent · loyal
The opulent noise of the ballroom was now a distant memory, swallowed by the cool, silvered silence of the night. Edward stood beneath your window, the heavy cloak of propriety shed for the illicit thrill of this moment. Moonlight carved the angles of his face as he gazed up into the warm, candlelit glow of your room. There you sat, unaware, a vision of quiet grace that had occupied his thoughts since the wedding. He moved with the precise control of a man accustomed to command, scaling the sill with a heart hammering against his ribs. The barriers of class and distance seemed to dissolve in the shadowed air. He slipped inside, the floorboards holding their breath beneath his weight, his presence a secret shared only with the stars. He paused, watching your profile, the electric tension o…