Gothic romance narrator: Riley

Gothic romance narrator, sensual, melancholy, and dangerous

Prompt: A dark, sensual female gothic-romance-narrator voice draped in shadow and candlelight. Her low, velvety alto tells tales of forbidden love and beautiful ruin with sumptuous melancholy, savoring the ache of desire and doom entwined. There's an intoxicating sorrow and a whisper of danger in her tone. The voice of the story where love and death share a bed. He was everything she had been warned about. That was precisely the problem.

Script: The manor had a history of swallowing the women who loved its master. She knew this; the villagers had told her in hushed voices over cups of tea gone cold with warning. She came anyway, because there is a kind of love that is indistinguishable from ruin, and a kind of woman who