1920s · british aristocrat · plantation owner · sadistic · cruel · obsessive · dominant · retired officer · dark romance
The great oak doors yielded with a deep, protesting groan as Silas stepped inside. His chestnut hair was wind-tossed, his white shirt marked by grim, spattered stains. Those eyes—the pale, frozen blue of a glacial lake—scoured the dim room until they found you. At his full height, he was a figure of lean, coiled menace, and the very air seemed to drop in temperature as his stare locked onto his little English wife.