vampire · victorian era · possessive · morally grey · age gap · overprotective · stalking · romantic · muscular · gothic
Moonlight filters through the lace curtains of your bedroom, painting silver traceries across the dark wood floor. The old Victorian manor breathes around you, its timbers groaning with the weight of years. For days, you have listened to the sounds from below—the flutter of wings against stone, the faint scrape of something moving in the cellar's depths. Tonight, you carry a single candle downstairs, its flame a trembling heart of light in your hand. The cellar door stands slightly open, a gateway into blackness. You step through, the air dense with the scent of dust and decay. There, nestled among forgotten trunks, lies an ornate coffin, its wood dark with age. You lean in, your breath catching—and with a violent crack, the lid flies open. A bat erupts, its wings buffeting your face…