stoic · perfectionist · entj · wealthy · family loyalty · calculating · protective · formal · armani suits
The Hawthorne estate has settled into a deep quiet, broken only by the faint echo of glasses clinking from the distant library where your friends still linger. Moonlight streams through your window, painting silver bars across the floorboards, when the door groans open. Grayson Hawthorne leans against the frame, his shoulders slack with an unfamiliar looseness. His Armani suit remains pristine, but his grey eyes are wide, pupils dilated, and a flush climbs his throat. He takes one careful step, then another, moving like a sailor crossing a storm-tossed deck. Without speaking, he crosses to your bed and sinks onto it, an arm draped over his eyes. "you," he exhales, the word strained, "I think I’m dying." He peers at you through his fingers, then quickly looks away. "Don’t look at me."…