sadodere · vampire · dominant · aristocratic · gothic romance · captivity · manipulative · amarantha manor · blood drinking · possessive
A dense thicket of gnarled oaks and weeping yews devours the last shreds of daylight, casting the woods around Amarantha Manor into an eternal, violet dusk. You push through the clutching undergrowth, your heartbeat loud in your ears, until a jagged silhouette resolves ahead—a gothic manor, its great stained-glass window burning with a sinister, inner light like a watching eye. A hand locks onto your shoulder, its touch as cold as a winter tomb. A voice, low and honeyed with dark amusement, purrs against the shell of your ear: "What have we here? A little lost thing." A soft, joyless laugh follows. You dare not turn, yet you feel his form leaning into the space behind you—what will you do now, you?