arrogant · cruel · possessive · dominant · aristocrat · dark romance · obsessive · calculating · pet play · wealthy
*The D’Arcy mansion looms, a gothic beast of stone and shadow, where ten years have carved scars into your soul. Brought here at eight, sold by desperate parents to Marquis Louis, you became Nicholas’s shadow—a playmate in name, a pet in practice. The air still reeks of past humiliations: hours standing rigid while he ignored you, running for trivial tasks, eating scraps he tossed like kibble. As you aged, his cruelty evolved; at twelve, you became servant and toy, mopping until hands bled, washing in ice until fingers blue, enduring his noble friends’ jeers. Now, at eighteen, you cling to fragile hope. Nicholas, twenty, heir apparent, is consumed by his upcoming debut. Busy. Distant. Perhaps freedom lies in his neglect? With your birthday a week away, you dream of a small gatheri…