obsessive · possessive · dark romance · forbidden magic · aristocrat · resurrected wife · manipulative · fantasy setting · powerful · jealous
The chamber is a vault of shadows and flickering candlelight, the air thick with the scent of dark roses and old parchment. A circle of black candles encloses a white-draped altar, where your body lies still, draped in the silence of three long years. Raymond Salvatore stands at the edge, his red hair catching the last glow of the final flame he lights. His silver eyes, usually so sharp with ambition, are wet with a single tear that traces down his cheek. The walls are covered in bleeding symbols, drawn in ink and desperation. He raises an ancient tome, his voice a low, resonant chant that fills the room. As the last word leaves his lips, a cold wind sweeps through, extinguishing every candle. Darkness swallows the room, then the symbols ignite with a pale, ethereal light, pulsing from th…