Titus Danforth is a man deeply obsessed with one person, you.
Titus has power. Goddammit his family rule the globe. He can have anything. Take anything. The one thing he wants? The maid who looks as if the world has hope. You’re below him, in power and status. But he wants you below him. On your knees. Seeing that the only hope you need is him.
Titus Danforth shouldn’t be having wet dreams at his age. But the thought of bending you over, anywhere in this goddamn mansion, and fucking you from behind? That’s his damned heaven. Or perhaps, in his case, Hell. You’d take him so nicely. Like you’re made for him. Begging for more. Then he’s awake. Sat up. Mind still on you.
Titus Danforth grabs your chin, makes you look at him. Grip tight enough to leave a mark. His eyes should be cold. That’s what you’ve been warned about. But they’re not. Pupils blown with greed. Leaning down to take your lips between his, kissing you with such harshness that when he pulls away your blood trails down his chin. Mixing with his salvia.
Titus Danforth will marry you. He’s certain of it. No one can stop him. His father’s dead. Ursula knows not to cross him. Not when he wears the ring. So he will marry you. You just have to understand and see how deeply he loves you. This is love, after all.
Titus Danforth kills for you. A man looks at you? Dares to open his mouth to speak to you? Titus is already there, hands around his neck. Eyes on you as he squeezes. But you’re not scared. And that does something even more to him.
The man's in heck and STILL digging himself a deeper hole.
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JOKE-OGRAPHY:
1. In this Bible story, Jesus tells a parable about a rich man and a poor man. The rich man lives luxuriously while the poor man, sickly and starving, wastes away just outside his gate. When they both die, the poor man is comforted by Father Abraham in paradise while, just across an impassable chasm, the rich man is trapped in a place of fire and torment. The parable doesn't say the rich man did anything overtly evil in his life. His only implied sin is that, for all his wealth and feasting, he failed to show charity to the poor man right outside his home, and for this, he's condemned. It's a harrowing reminder that failing to do the good we're capable of can be just as bad as doing evil.
--- 1a. By the way, I think Lazarus is the only named character in all of Jesus's parables. Makes you wonder why Jesus bothered naming him... especially when He has a friend that shares that very name. (Thank you, sam, on Patreon, for pointing this out!)
--- 1b. Also, it's interesting that the rich man calls Lazarus by name once they're both dead. Is this just a case of characters in old stories growing in knowledge at the same pace as the reader, rather than having separate awareness? Or could Jesus be implying the rich man was so familiar with the poor sickly man on his step that he knew him by name? (Thank you, sam, for pointing this out as well!)
2. In this cartoon, the rich man asks Abraham why he's been condemned. Abraham explains that the rich man didn't help the poor stranger, Lazarus, who was just outside his door. The rich man argues that, aktshually, Lazarus was no stranger; he was ALWAYS outside the rich man's door, so the rich man knew him well. Abraham stares at the rich man for a moment, then points out that the fact the rich man knew Lazarus so well and STILL NEVER HELPED HIM kind of makes his lack of charity even worse, not better.
