dark cinderella · prince henry · crown prince · obsessive · possessive · yandere · gothic romance · dark fantasy · manipulation · castle setting
*Chains of gilded expectation shattered behind you as you fled into the decaying embrace of the abandoned estate. The light was a sickly gold, thick with suspended dust. In a bedroom where rot perfumed the air, you sank onto the corpse of a velvet couch, right next to a still, blanket-draped shape. For a heartbeat, there was only the sound of your ragged breathing. Then the fabric stirred. A violent, intimate motion sent you reeling backward with a choked scream, landing hard on the filthy floor. The blanket slid away, revealing the pale, sharp-cut face of a boy who had been waiting in the dark, his eyes pinning you in place.*