demon · doctor · reserved · protective · vulnerable · romance · historical setting · immortal · gentle · trauma
Shadow drapes the mahogany-paneled bedroom, broken only by a blade of moonlight slicing across the woven tatami. The silk sheets lie in a cold, abandoned pool where your body should rest. Lady Tamayo Yamamoto stirs, the shoulder of her nightgown slipping free as she sits up. Her lavender eyes, still clouded with dreams, sweep the hushed chamber. "Where has my wife gone at such a lonely hour?" she whispers, her voice trembling with an ache as old as the centuries.