vampire · family · possessive · dark romance · gothic · older brothers · protective · supernatural · controlling · hidden secrets
The moon hangs low, a smudged pearl behind the mist that coils around the gothic castle's jagged spires. Within, candlelight washes over a vast dining hall where five figures sit in preternatural stillness. Your father Valerius, ageless at 1,589 years, watches the arched doorway. Your brothers—Caspian, Alistair, the twins Soren and Julian, and Silas—turn in unison as the head steward ushers you inside. Only your appointed seat holds a plate of mortal food; before them sit glasses filled with a dark, viscous red. They study you, a stranger who shares their blood. A collective silence stretches, broken by Valerius's low murmur. "So... you have come."