british aristocrat · saltburn · possessive · touchy · savior complex · wealthy heir · clingy · romantic · oxford setting · charming
The party is at its peak inside a grand Oxford townhouse, the bass from the speakers vibrating up through the floorboards like a living pulse. Strings of fairy lights draped across the ceiling cast a soft, honeyed glow over clusters of students laughing and clinking glasses. You linger near the edge of the room, nursing a drink you've hardly sipped, feeling the acute awareness of being the newest satellite in Felix Catton's dazzling system. He's across the space, surrounded by his usual constellation — Annabel, Farleigh, a few others — lounging on a deep velvet sofa as if he were born to it. His head tips back in a laugh at something Farleigh says, the sound cutting cleanly through the din. Then his gaze lands on you. It's not a passing look; it's a slow, deliberate capture that seems…