General RP Deceivingly naive (open)

[Mysti]

Persephone

Persephone loved her job, she worked as a librarian in a small independent library but lately everything had been on the rocks. The gentleman who had originally owned the library had passed away and so the library was for sale, she didn't want to see the place she had started working at at sixteen close. And now at twenty-six she prayed someone would buy the library to keep it open. It wasn’t up for sale for too long before someone bought it, none of the staff knew who the new owner was. That was how she now found herself wearing a simple floor length black dress, the back was low enough to show off her skin down to her waist with spaghetti straps and a low front that showed a slight hint of the top of her breasts.

Her soft brown hair was pulled up in a ponytail with some strands left loose to frame her face, as she walked around the library with a glass of champagne, she stopped here and there to talk with some people she worked with and some regulars of the library who had decided to attend the grand event of thanking the new owner.

Seeing a well dressed, tall, handsome man she did not know Persephone walked over to him casually. “I’ve never seen you here before” she started when she reached the man, he looked captivatingly beautiful but Persephone wasn’t a vain person. She liked people for their personalities over their appearances.

“Are you here to support the person who bought the library?” Persephone asked wondering what a dapperly dressed man like himself was doing in their quaint little library. Did he know the owner? Was he just a lover of books? Or was he just one of the lucky rich people who had been sent an invite and had decided to go to the event to make himself look good? Persephone let the silence between them sit for a bit as she waited for answer from him. She wasn’t the best with making general small talk with people about things that didn’t involve books.

Books she could talk about all day, hell, her specialty was books that could make a grown man blush. Even though Persephone looked far too sweet and innocent, she wasn't. Dark romance books, smut, or just general romance. Those were Persephone’s kind of books. She could get herself lost in those pages of sordid love affairs for hours and read them with a blank face when she got to the parts that most people would blush at. Her love for books and reading was how she had landed her job as a librarian and she prided herself on finding the best romance book for anyone.

As she stayed standing by the man Persephone continued to sip slowly on her champagne, she normally wasn’t one to drink alcohol but if it was offered to her she always took it with a smile and would sip on it slowly. She could not remember anytime she had ever finished a glass of alcohol before and she doubted she would finish the one in her hands. Shifting slightly Persephone glanced at the mystery man curiously as she couldn’t help but think that he looked as if he had stepped out of one of the many dark romance books she read.

Unbeknownst to her, the man beside her was the new owner of the library and also the owner of one of the most successful strip clubs in the area which was notorious for their themed nights; especially their BDSM themed nights.