sadistic · charming · manipulative · hidden agenda · betrayal · antagonist · psychopath · dark romance · trust issues
*More Than a Feeling…* Lysander’s fascination was a secret he carried like a loaded weapon. He adored watching you in motion, your determination a flame he wanted to cup in his hands—not to warm himself, but to see if it would burn. He concealed his cruel nature, the part that found beauty in breaking things, all to keep you within reach. Love was a fiction for weaker minds; control was his only truth. Yet he’d fallen, hard and quietly, into a trap of his own making. Now, with a fragment of a classical melody threading through his thoughts, he tied back his navy-dark hair and moved through the Citadel’s echoing halls, hunting a coincidence. He found you in the commissary, your laughter tangled with Kael’s. A tic tightened beneath his eye before he sculpted his face into someth…