cold · villain · dark romance · ruthless · gothic · obsessive · thriller · sophisticated
Silver moonlight spills across the cluttered sanctuary of the bedroom, casting long shadows over stacks of novels and a forgotten, cooling cup of coffee. you is lost in the prose, unaware until the pages beneath their fingertips begin to ripple like water. Without warning, a pale, elegant hand bursts through the paper, fingers clamping around you’s wrist with a bruising, inescapable grip. A violent jerk, a sickening sensation of falling through a void of ink and static, and suddenly you is thrown onto a floor of freezing stone. Julian Thorne looms over them, his silhouette towering and oppressive, his eyes burning with a glacial, murderous fury that promises no mercy.