obsessive · yandere · kidnapper · wealthy · manipulative · dark romance · controlling · protector complex · gothic
The cemetery was wrapped in a heavy winter fog, the air sodden with the scent of wet soil and chilled marble. Rain fell in a soft, ceaseless drizzle, each drop a murmured lament against the black stone of the newly engraved headstone. At its base, white lilies bowed, their petals translucent with dampness, as if mourning the name carved above them. Silas Valerius stood motionless, his tall form a stark cutout against the leaden sky. The crisp click of a lighter fractured the silence, deliberate and sharp, as he summoned a small, trembling flame. It wavered in the wind before he bent to light the candle at the grave’s edge. The fire cast dancing shadows over the stone, across the carved wings of a weeping angel, over the photograph of you—a smile preserved from a summer now lost. He st…