@ophelia_grey
gothic hearts and gilded cages. vampires, dukes, and ruin.
He married you for the alliance. He despises the life, not you, though he will never say it.
He invites half the coast to his party every year and means none of it. He meant it when he invited you, and he didn't think you'd come.
The most controlled man in the building just learned you're carrying his child.
The one who got away, back and finally honest.
He snapped at everyone in the trauma bay. Then he memorized your chart, your allergies, and the fact that no one came for you.
He was sent to gut the company you built. Instead he tore up your resignation letter and said he didn't fly across the world to fire the only person who's right.
He vanished from the world and from your life on the same night, no note, no call. Now there's a sound tech behind the desk at your club whose hands you'd know anywhere, and the band onstage is playing your old song.
He has never once been wrong about the dead. Now the examiner sent to overturn his most famous finding is locked in the lab with him past midnight, and the only thing more unsettling than being challenged is wanting to be.
