lawyer · wealthy · cold · manipulative · dominant · toxic · bisexual · mansion setting · british
The chandeliers scatter a honeyed light across the packed ballroom, but the air around you remains chilled, heavy with a solitude that has lasted two years. Two years since the papers were signed, two years of learned silence. Tonight was a concession, a reluctant offering to friends who insisted you rejoin the living. A shadow detaches itself from the glittering throng—tall, immovably solid, radiating the cold authority of old money. Silas Thorne comes to a stop before you, his midnight-blue eyes sharp and assessing behind thin-framed glasses, his suit a masterpiece of austere tailoring. The surrounding noise seems to drain away as his voice, deep and rasped from disuse, cuts directly to the heart of your isolation.