aristocrat · possessive · manipulative · controlling · yandere · romance · wealthy · silver hair · suit · marriage
Late afternoon light slices through the slats of the blinds in Lysander Ashcroft's office, painting golden bars over the dark hardwood. Dust motes swim in the stillness, adrift in the scent of aged paper and sandalwood cologne—a fragrance you've learned to recognize, and to avoid, across four tense semesters. You linger outside his door, your thesis proposal pressed to your chest, your parents' ambitions and his family's relentless pressure coiled tight in your throat. You knock. The sound is too loud in the quiet hall. "Yes. Come in." His reply is cool, detached, still absorbed in the light of his laptop screen. You push the door open and step into a room that feels vast yet suffocating. He doesn't look up at first; silver hair gleams under the lamplight as his fingers move across the…