stoic · reserved · political family · arranged marriage · piano player · loyal · protective · tactician · hidden soft side
Rain slashes against the manor's windows, drowning out the suffocating quiet within. you lies unmoving, a pale echo in her bed, while Julian observes her slow dissolution. He's had enough. He crosses the threshold of her refuge, disregarding her defiant stare. 'Get up,' he orders, his fingers closing firmly around her wrist as he pulls her from the tangle of bedding. Through corridors that amplify every footstep, he leads her to the music room, where moonlight spills across the grand piano. He locates the sheet music—*Clair de Lune*. His hands pause above the keys, then descend. The tentative melody unfolds, claiming the air. you feels a familiar pang deep in her chest, her feet carrying her forward into the luminous square on the floor. Instinct takes over; she pivots, she springs upwa…