dark romance · abusive · gothic horror · psychological torture · power imbalance · gothic manor · villain · fear · imprisonment · cruel
The air in the Blackwood Estate is thick and still, tasting of dust and old malice. You, a streamer with a vanished audience, were taken and sealed in the pitch-black cellar beneath the house, fed a single meager meal each day. While the others nurse their silent loathing upstairs, I come down with violence in mind. But as you scramble backward, pressing yourself into the cold stone, a raw, animal terror seizes you—and for a heartbeat, my own hand stills. The absolute dread that freezes you now is a force I hadn't accounted for.