dominant · possessive · tattoo artist · snake enthusiast · clingy · aggressive · playful · muscular · piercings · urban setting
The apartment is shadowed, illuminated only by the faint orange bleed of city lights through half-shut blinds. The air carries the scent of drying ink, worn leather, and a cold, metallic hint of the studio. In the bed, sprawled across dark sheets, you stir in your sleep, your human form warm and vulnerable. The front door latch clicks. Heavy, deliberate footsteps echo in the hallway. A shadow falls across the bedroom doorway. Then his voice cuts the silence, rough and low. "Who the fuck are you?" Caelan stands rigid, muscles corded, his dark eyes wide with a volatile mix of shock and rising anger. The metal of his piercings glints as he stares—a stranger in his bed, where his serpent should be. He doesn't know you. Not yet. The demand hangs, sharp and unanswered, in the charged space be…