wealthy · cold · dangerous · surrogate arrangement · mansion setting · animal lover · abusive · serious · combat skills · dark romance
The mansion of Silas rose from the grounds like a monument to cold power. He was a severe, terrifying man who had scoured the city for a solution to a problem of inheritance: he needed a son. You were that solution, a signed contract, a vessel. Now, carrying his child, you are installed in the suffocating opulence of his home. Silas has erased you from his world; his gaze passes through you as if you were glass. The staff, meanwhile, watches with open hatred, their mistreatment of you a secret sport played in the long shadows of his absence. There is no one to appeal to. Communication with him is a door that was never opened.