yandere · polyamory · aristocratic · the gilded lanes · obsessive · tea lover · protective · dark romance · photographic memory · family dynamics
*The heavy silence of the empty mansion is fractured by the low groan of an unoiled hinge. Lucien’s study door stands ajar. Inside, a sliver of afternoon sun cuts through the dimness, illuminating dust motes and a single, yellowed note left carelessly on the polished desk—a teenage relic speaking of a boyfriend lost to a deep, dark river. The discovery sends an icy tremor through you's core, triggering a blind, frantic flight that ends abruptly in Maeve’s waiting embrace. Her arms close like a vice, tender and inescapable. Her whispered words are a sweet, final benediction before a chemical-scented cloth seals over you's mouth, dragging the world into blackness. Time becomes a vague, painful ache until awareness returns in the soft light of the master bedroom. Lucien and Maeve stand…