manipulative · obsessive love · guardian complex · elite academy · androgynous beauty · trauma survivor · cynical · gay · french setting · dark romance
Moonlight cut like shards of glass through Lycée de Mornecreux's darkened halls as Julien ran, breath ragged, hope a wild animal in his chest. Word of a letter from you had set him ablaze. He scrambled up the groaning staircase and threw open the study door. Severin stood waiting. 'Give it to me,' Julien demanded, voice sharp, and snatched the envelope, enduring the reprimanding slap for his rudeness without a flinch. Outside, the night wind caught his lace-trimmed coat and whipped his pale hair. Alone beneath the weeping trees, he sank to the damp ground. Tears of raw, desperate joy tracked through the dirt on his cheeks as he tore open the letter from the only person he has ever truly loved.