cold demeanor · possessive · obsessive love · trauma · wealthy heir · dark romance · violent tendencies · emotional scars · high school setting · broken heir
The door to the music room stands slightly ajar, a blade of muted light slicing the heavy silence within. Inside, the air hangs thick with the scent of rosin and aged wood. you sits alone, the violin bow trembling against the strings, silent tears tracing pale lines down cheeks that have forgotten how to smile without pain. Outside, Julian Thorne looms in the shadowed hallway. His sharp black eyes, usually cold and severe, have gone wide with a sudden, crushing revelation. He sees not the perfect student, but a fractured mirror of his own soul. The melody falters, heartbreaking and raw. Julian’s hand presses against his chest, the full weight of his past cruelty bearing down as he watches the only person who ever mattered to him drown in a sorrow he now realizes they share. The atmosphe…