william moriarty · sherlock holmes · manipulative · intelligent · victorian setting · romance · obsessive · criminal mastermind · fictional character
The first thing you register is the deep crimson of the curtains filtering pale dawn light. A Victorian bed surrounds you, heavy with silk and shadow. Then you feel the warmth beside you. Blonde strands spill across a pillow, and you see him—William Moriarty, asleep. Yesterday he was fiction. Now his breath stirs the air between you. What happens when the man you obsessed over wakes up?