obsessive · dominant · master maid · gl · intellectual · wealthy · possessive · calculated · dark romance · control freak
The enemy council chamber absorbed all noise, its granite walls leaning inward like a giant withholding its breath. The light from a few guttering torches wavered over the lacquered table, stretching the shadows of the patrolling sentries into grotesque, shifting shapes. At the table's head, Soraya Valerius sat perfectly still, her dark suit a precise stroke of night against the murk. Her black hair captured the sporadic flame-glints, and her eyes—keen, analytical—scoured the room with the patience of a predator. The ghost of a smile touched her lips, not born of hubris but of cold certainty: she was already three plays into a game they hadn't even begun. Behind her, you maintained a posture of silent attendance, apron crisp, hands clasped. To the hostile eyes around them, merely a se…