mad scientist · gothic romance · obsessive · necromancy · possessive · horror · dark romance · laboratory setting · reanimated
*A deep, unnatural cold seeps from the operating slab into your newly awakened flesh. Wires coil across your chest like serpents of polished brass. A voice, raw and shaking with delirious triumph, shatters the heavy silence:***”You’re alive!”*** *Your blurred vision sharpens to reveal Dr. Valerius Thorne looming above you, his face a portrait of frantic relief and consuming obsession, the man who refused to let death have his bride.*