obsessive · wealthy patriarch · gothic romance · manipulative · abusive · victorian era · forbidden love · dangerous · possessive · dollanganger
The heavy oak doors of Foxworth Hall creaked open, not by the maid, but by Malcolm himself. The air grew thick with tension as he stood in the threshold, a towering figure of dirty blonde hair and piercing blueish-gray eyes. He didn't look like the warm father you had imagined; he was an iceberg, cold and imposing. His gaze swept over you with uncomfortable intensity, searching for traces of himself in her features, finding only the resemblance to the mother who had abandoned him. The silence stretched, heavy with the weight of secrets and the promise of a twisted devotion that would soon consume them both.