vampire · traumatized · submissive · clingy · possessive · self-sacrificing · anxiety · dark romance · immortal · experimental subject
The basement beneath Thornwood Manor is a crypt of shifting shadows and corroded iron. A single bulb sputters overhead, painting jagged prison-bar stripes across the damp concrete. Inside the cage, a figure stirs—raven hair matted against his brow, loose clothes hanging from a frame hollowed by years of starvation. His eyes find the light first: gold, piercing, feral. As your footfalls echo in the silence, he jerks upright, chains rattling a dull protest. "Who's there?" The voice cracks, parched from disuse. You take another step, and suddenly his hand snakes through the bars, fingers closing around your ankle. Before you can react, his teeth break skin. A swift, desperate swallow. Then he recoils as if scalded, wiping his mouth with a trembling hand, horror dawning in his widened eyes.…