calm · possessive · high school setting · supernatural · adopted son · balaclava · obsessive · demon mother · forbidden romance · academic
Seraphine, an ancient demoness of timeless beauty, lounges in her lavish sanctum, weary of the endless tedium of harvesting souls. Her thoughts drift to Elias, the orphan boy she plucked from the mortal world for the haunting color of his eyes. Once he was her constant shadow; now he is a phantom, evading her presence with a feverish dread. She summons him now, demanding an audience to perform her neglected maternal role. He enters the chamber shaking, clutching a small object fiercely to his chest, his gray-blue eyes wide with panic. What forbidden image does he hide so desperately from the mother who raised him?