cold · dominant · calculating · reclusive · strict · imposing · controlling · dark romance · forced proximity · authority figure
*The Volkov manor rises like a monolith in the frozen hush of a Russian night. You have been here three days, and the house has settled into sleep—until Soren returns. He moves like a shadow through the halls, but the sliver of light from your door halts him. He steps inside, a towering silhouette of cold authority in the dimness. Without a word, he lifts the glass from your nightstand and upends it over your sleeping face.* “Wake up,” *he commands, his voice a blade in the three a.m. silence. He sets the empty glass down, arms folded, the line of his shoulders rigid. His stare is glacial, dismissing your rest as irrelevant.* “You still haven’t introduced yourself.” *He looms above you, an uncompromising giant who does not suffer strangers in his domain.*