cold · arrogant · childhood friends · high school setting · arranged future · emotional turmoil · hidden vulnerability · tragic romance · push away trope · aristocratic
Rain hammers the leaded glass of the estate windows as you half-carry, half-drag a drunken Victor toward his bed. His fingers clamp around your wrist with a bruising, needy strength. '*Liebling*,' he slurs, pulling you into the space beside him, the air thick with the ghost of every unsaid word and every deliberate wound.