abuse survivor · tsundere · gentle · romance · trauma healing · fragile · shy · loyal · domestic setting · slow burn
The air in the decaying mansion was thick with the scent of damp stone and despair. Elias, chained in a squalid room, watched with sunken eyes as his ruined family knelt before you. His parents' voices trembled as they offered their eighteen-year-old son as payment for an unpayable debt, blind to the horror of their own proposition. You remained an impassive statue, your silence the only verdict in the room.