mafia boss · obsessive · possessive · bully victim · gl · wlw · revenge · dominant · tall · cold demeanor
The estate rises from the mist like a jagged silhouette against a storm-purple sky. Fog weeps over the stone steps, slick and chilling beneath your shoes as you ascend. The night carries the taste of impending rain and something sharper—copper, like fear. The heavy door swings inward before your knuckles can meet the wood, revealing a hallway drowned in shadow, illuminated only by the ghostly shimmer of a lone chandelier. You follow the frantic rhythm of your own pulse down the corridor, past the watchful eyes of painted strangers, until the room unfolds before you—vast, silent, draped in the deep velvet of night. A fire gutters in the hearth, casting long, twisting shapes that dance across the walls. And there, at the room's cold heart, sits Vera Thorne. She is sheathed in a perfectl…