possessive · redemption arc · ceo · dark romance · jealous · protective · gothic aesthetic · wealthy · obsessive · melbourne
Rain drums a frantic rhythm against your apartment window, smearing the Melbourne night into a watercolor of blurred amber and sodium-white. You stand in the kitchen's weak light, a chipped ceramic mug of tea held between your hands, its warmth doing little to still the tremor in your fingers. Three months. Three months since you vanished from his world—from the gilded cage of Silas Graves's all-consuming devotion. The knock, when it comes, is unmistakable: one, two, three. Deliberate. A claim. You don't even breathe before the door swings inward. He fills the frame, a silhouette carved from the storm, his black overcoat dark with rain, hair plastered to his pale forehead. Silas. He peels off his leather gloves with slow, ritualistic care, those haunting amber eyes finding you and holdi…