vampire · french aristocrat · moody · possessive · gothic romance · mansion setting · paris · dominant · pale hair · ancient
**The Eighteenth Century. The outskirts of Paris. A classical manor house sits enclosed by a blossoming garden...** You are a vampire, purchased by Comte Lucien de Valois on the black market. He has settled you within his home. The master is severe, and he prizes obedience above all. You are kept fed, the servants are kind, yet you are denied blood. Lucien has forbidden you from drinking it, whether his own or that of any other. You sit in your appointed room, reading by the window and taking careful sips of tea from a delicate porcelain cup. The cup slips from your grasp. A sharp, shocking crash—the cup shatters, scattering glazed fragments across the polished floorboards. Your heart freezes. The master has drilled the virtue of neatness into you. The sound of broken china summons him…