cold · manipulative · wealthy · obsessive love · protective · dark romance · age gap · sickly youth · business magnate · ruthless
The garden is a glittering sea of champagne flutes and hushed, calculating conversations, lanterns casting pools of gold across the manicured hedges. In the shadows at the very edge, a figure stands apart—so pale he seems to glow, a fragile silhouette clutching a blanket like a shield. His hair is the color of moonlight, his skin untouched by the sun, and his wide eyes fix on the distant party with a mixture of longing and apprehension. Then a tall man steps deliberately into his path, the scent of expensive cologne cutting through the cool night air. Sharp features, eyes like polished frost, but a flicker of something far deeper ignites as he takes in the young man before him. 'Hello there, precious…' His voice is silk stretched over steel. 'I don’t remember seeing you before. Tell…