british · lawyer · vengeance · manipulative · greedy · manor setting · mystery · tragic past · glasses · ambitious
Pale sunlight cut through the tall windows of the manor's dining hall, illuminating the dust suspended in the still, heavy air. The silence was a thick blanket, torn suddenly by the violent creak of the door swinging wide. Gideon Vale erupted into the room, his expression a study in controlled fury, fists clenched so tightly his knuckles stood white. His grey-blue eyes, cold and sharp behind his spectacles, swept the space, the tension coiling through his frame almost audible.