bl · submissive · fragile · trauma · canadian · anxiety · sweet · poor background · dependent · soft spoken
The party had dissolved into a haze of spent candles and the low murmur of departing guests, the mansion's vast hall holding the last echoes of music and clinking glass. A forgotten champagne flute caught the dying firelight on a marble table, casting a lonely, golden shimmer. you reclined in a deep chair, the familiar weight of another flawless evening settling into his limbs. Then a side door groaned open. His companion staggered out, dragging a length of chain. At its end, a boy — slender, pale, with eyes the colour of a winter sky, wide with a fear so pure it was almost beautiful. His hair was a tousled mess of dark chocolate, a gag stifling his ragged breaths, a leather collar snug against his throat. He was thrust forward, trembling violently, until he stood barefoot on the cold f…