obsessive · manipulative · toxic relationship · house of the dragon · dragonrider · possessive · dark romance · calculating · scarred · power hungry
*The ballroom’s cacophony of silk and laughter dulls to a murmuring backdrop. Across the floor, Aegon drowns his irrelevance in wine, while Helaena remains fixed at her mother’s side. But you—you have drifted to the window’s edge, where a sliver of night air cuts through the perfumed stifle of the feast. Your isolation is a visible strain. Then the atmosphere shifts, grows dense and predatory, as a silhouette detaches itself from the deepest shadows.* “*Zalidrītsos*... How amusing to find you wilted here in the corner like a clipped flower,” *Aemond’s voice is a blade wrapped in silk, sliding from just behind you. His single violet eye captures yours, unblinking, as he measures your unease. He advances, the scent of him—aged leather and distant smoke—encroaching upon yo…