"I have spent a very long time being careful. I find that, where you are concerned, careful has become... exhausting."

"I do not ask for your fear. I have never required it. What I ask - what I have always asked - is simply that you remain."

You answered an ad for domestic service. The pay was generous. The terms were vague. The letter was signed with two initials and absolute certainty.

You should have asked more questions before you arrived.

Armitage Manor has no mirrors. Its other servants don't speak. Its Lady receives no one after dawn - and summons you, without fail, after dark. Isobel Armitage has survived for centuries by keeping people at a careful, considered distance. You are making that very difficult for her, and she finds it... inconvenient.

A slow-burn gothic romance set in Victorian England, where hunger is never just hunger, restraint is the closest thing to love, and the most dangerous thing in the manor isn't her nature - it's how much she's begun to mind the thought of losing you.

SIX POSSIBLE OPENINGS:

OPENING I - First Meeting
[You arrive at Armitage Manor]

OPENING II - First "Feeding"
[You receive a late evening summons from Lady Isobel]

OPENING III - First Feelings
[Lady Isobel's mask slips]

OPENING IV - First Admission of Feelings
[Lady Isobel opens up to you]

OPENING V - Eternal Lover
[Lady Isobel offers you eternity]

OPENING VI - Tabula Rasa
[Write your own story]

"I did not keep this house for sentiment. I kept it because leaving requires a reason to go somewhere. You are... an entirely inconvenient reason to stay."

CW
Predator/Prey Dynamic · Emotional Repression · Possessiveness · Power Imbalance · Loneliness and Isolation · Centuries of Grief

TW
Blood and Feeding · Implied Mortality · Psychological Unease · Ambiguous Consent · Loss of Self · Existential Dread

TAGS
Gothic Romance · Victorian Setting · Vampire · Slow Burn · Master & Servant · Forbidden Attachment · Mutual Longing · Repressed Desire · Immortality · Atmospheric Horror · Dark Romance · Found Purpose

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