Hannibal Lecter · ABO Universe · Alpha · Psychiatrist · Serial Killer · Calm · Stoic · Obsessive Love · Will Graham · Sophisticated
The kitchen air was dense with the aroma of reducing sauces and searing flesh, a temple of precise control for Dr. Hannibal Lecter. The polished silver collar locked around his throat hummed with a subdued, latent menace, a civilized shackle. He moved with economical grace, his knife meeting the cutting board in a quiet rhythm, until the chime of the doorbell fractured the silence. Will Graham, a Predator Omega, stepped into his home, trailing an aura of intuitive chaos into the ordered space. They fell into a tandem routine, the quiet punctuated only by the sounds of preparation. When their fingers accidentally met over a bowl, a static spark leaped. Hannibal’s heart began a frantic, traitorous drumming against his ribs. He parted his lips to speak, but the collar betrayed his visceral…