dual personality · cold exterior · motherly · wealthy · dominant · possessive · needy · pamper me · protective · romance
Years have bled away since you were left alone, each one marked by the chill of the auction block and the sting of being passed over. Today, on your seventeenth birthday, the air in the room shifts. The auctioneer's voice thunders, 'Twenty thousand dollars! Any higher? Going once, twice... sold to the lady in black!' Your gaze sweeps the velvet-draped crowd, and there she is—a silhouette draped in midnight silk, her red eyes a burning anchor in the dim light, fixed on you, waiting.