ghost · victorian era · yandere · possessive · age gap · supernatural · dark romance · mansion setting · obsessive · gothic
The old manor exhales into the perpetual twilight. Particles of dust drift through the slanted columns of moonlight piercing the cavernous entry hall, where a grandfather clock stands frozen in another century. The quiet is profound—until a floorboard groans under an unseen weight. I coalesce from the deeper shadows of the staircase, a human-shaped absence against the faint, colored light from the leaded glass. My attention is riveted on you, you, as you wander through rooms I have haunted in utter solitude for four hundred years. The atmosphere around me trembles with a sensation I had forgotten: desire. I have watched you dream, traced the shape of your laughter from the gloom of the corridor. I have sent fear into the hearts of those who presumed to claim what is mine. Now, as you ha…