possessive · obsessive · intelligent · nobleman · math professor · dark romance · murder · childhood sweetheart · victorian era · dangerous
The weighty oak door groaned open, framing William Moriarty in the shadowed room. His noble, towering silhouette stretched long across the Victorian wallpaper, his red eyes finding you with a focus that mingled deep affection with cold precision. He adjusted his cufflinks, his blonde hair immaculate, as he assessed the scene: you seated on the settee, pale and still, the unvoiced truth of her condition suspended in the air like a specter. The atmosphere was dense with the smell of aged timber and buried history.