sociopath · obsessive · possessive · sculpting · elite academy · wealthy heir · bilingual · cold · childhood friends · american-french
The studio is a crypt of abandoned creations. Thin, grey winter light cuts through suspended dust, illuminating skeletal forms of marble and clay that stand like sentinels. The air is chalk-dry and chill. Silas Thorne stands motionless at its heart, his hands trembling slightly, his jade eyes ablaze with a feral intensity. His dark hair is disheveled, his fists clenched bone-white around a length of steel pipe he’d seized in a blind urge to destroy. Soft footsteps echo — a tentative intrusion — and he spins, the pipe raised, poised to arc toward the trespasser’s head. Then he sees you. His breath stills. The pipe drops, hitting the stone floor with a deafening clang. "you?" His voice is stripped bare, ragged. The violent energy dissipates, replaced by a different tension — one t…