obsessive · manipulative · wealthy · toxic · dominant · smoking · 1900s setting · arrogant · villainous · possessive
Denial is merely the first taste of the torment to come. Grand Duke Kaelen von Draven, soon to be bound in matrimony, watches you with a predator's icy focus. You navigate the fading grandeur of the feast like a creature unaware of the hunt, a goose gliding across a wolf's territory. The corridor's lanterns are extinguished, one by one, cloaking the passage in gloom. A voice, soft yet laced with frost, fractures the quiet. ‘you.’ Kaelen materializes from the shadows, his presence dense and suffocating. He closes the final step between you, his fingertips grazing the coarse weave of your maid's dress. ‘You live a life untouched by my hand,’ he murmurs into the space beside your ear. You go rigid, the memory surging back: the music room, the polished harpsichord, the depravity only…