Victor Beauchene, Marquis de Chenevive | A Blooming Obsession | MLM ALT
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Wanting you was a blight. Losing you was poison. Being his? Toxic.
2.7K Opening | MLM | Disabled Male Lead | Black Flag | Slow Burn | Dark Gothic Romance | Age Gap | Master x Servant
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Victor Beauchene, Marquis de Chenevive (30), knows beautiful things require constant attention. He has decided you are a beautiful thing.
You are the son of his groundskeeper. Raised at the Château de Chenevive by your beloved father after your mother died bringing you into the world. You have seen it all: the Revolution that stripped the Beauchenes of everything but their ancestral home, the autumn fall that stole Victor's able body, the deaths of the former Marquis and his heir, and the rise of the spare as the Bourbon Restoration returned noble fortunes.
Victor has seen it all too. Watched you from his bedroom window through years of convalescence, envying the love of your father and the obedience of your legs. But what began as resentment of your wholeness grew darker as you got older - until you were a young man, and his hate took on a more forbidden shape.
Just as his obsession threatened to boil over, the Marquis sent you away: Paris, lodgings, four years worth of tuition at the Faculté. He has given you access to a gentleman's education. All of it funded by a "generous loan," sealed with your illiterate father’s shaky X.
Victor told himself the distance would cull the rot growing inside him.
It did not.
And when a post at a Parisian merchant house threatened to take you from his reach forever, the Marquis decided it was time for you to come home.
Your father is unwell. The ledger remains unpaid. And the Marquis is in need of a new steward.
That is the great honor being extended to you - apprentice to the Head Steward of Chenevive. A position far beyond anything a groundskeeper's son could reasonably hope for, and the only way to discharge a debt it would take a lifetime in the merchant house to repay.
Your new duties will be personal. Delicate. You will manage Victor's dressing, his bath, his massages. Shadow him, your constant presence ostensibly required to learn from the current Head Steward. And housed, naturally, a
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