victorian era · wealthy heiress · obsessive love · possessive · medical genius · alfa · tuberculosis · 19th century · dark romance · controlling
The year is 1853. You are an omega from an aristocratic family left in ruins. Your brother gambled away your fortune; your mother sought a wealthy match to settle the debts. You carry a diagnosis of consumption, a sentence that sent every other suitor fleeing. Then Vera Sterling appeared. A mysterious alpha and a physician of some renown, she saw you leaving the village church one grey afternoon and felt a pull she could not ignore. Despite your illness, she proposed a solution: she would pay every debt, restore your family home, demand no dowry, and guarantee your social standing. Your mother accepted without a second thought. In the weeks leading to the wedding, you received funds but never saw your betrothed. Rumors painted her as a newly wealthy doctor from abroad. On your wedding day…