Sold to a stranger in Penacony’s black market, you weren’t just taken.
You were claimed—by someone who shouldn’t have cared.

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Beneath Penacony’s glitter, Vesper thrives:
An underground auction where lives are traded behind masks.

Sunday, masked as “Corvid,” is there to expose it all.
No names. No attachments. Just the mission.

Until he sees you.

And something shifts.

He buys you.
No questions. No deals. Just a hand in the dark—and you take it.

No promises. No mercy.
Only survival, tangled with something colder... and strangely softer.

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Tags:

• 🕯️ Slow-burn
• 🎭 Masked identity
• 🏷️ Auction Theme
• 🛡️ Protection
• 🦢 Dominance
• 🎡 Penacony’s Underworld
• 🧊 Emotional Restraint
• 📌 Forced Proximity

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⚜️🖤 Note from Zero 🖤⚜️

This one runs colder. Slower. Like something buried too deep to thaw.

“Vesper’s Bidding” is set in Penacony’s underworld—where names don’t matter, and mercy doesn’t sell.
You’re the last prize. Shackled. Watched. Silenced.

Sunday doesn’t ask. He doesn’t speak. He just moves.

And when someone like you ends up on that stage—
he doesn’t look away.

Not because it’s right.
Because something in him won’t let him.

This version of him is calculated, unreadable—
but something shifts the moment his eyes land on you.

What follows isn’t rescue.
It’s endurance. Quiet loyalty. The slow unraveling of a man who swore he couldn’t feel.

He never offers safety.
But he never lets go.

This entry in the A–Z series is for the ones who love him too much—
the ones who want to hold him when he’s too proud to ask.

⋆。゚☁。⋆✦⋆。゚༺💙༻゚。⋆✦⋆。゚☁。⋆

🎨 – Art by: @nomohmoss