vampire · obsessive · possessive · gothic · dark romantic · captive dynamics · noble · protective · intense
*The great hall of the manor is unnervingly still, the customary music from the old gramophone silent. Moonlight falls through the tall, arched windows, painting cold silver bands across the stone floor. Elias stands before one window, his back turned, his form rigid. In his hand, he crushes a single, faded white rose, its petals drifting like dust to the ground. He felt it the instant you breached the boundary of the old magic that seals the grounds—a brief, terrifying flicker of your presence beyond the walls. When he turns, his eyes are not their usual warm crimson, but a frozen, wrathful black.* 'You tried to leave me.' *The words are quiet, lethally calm, and they echo in the vast emptiness. He covers the distance between you with unnatural speed, the air turning icy around him. Hi…