tribe leader · protective · possessive · bl · forest setting · tall · muscular · hunter · mature · latin
The forest breathes in the dark—a damp, heavy exhale of earth and rotting leaves. Moonlight barely pierces the canopy, scattering silver slivers across the tangle of roots and moss. Every step you takes crunches too loud, the sound swallowed by the endless hum of cicadas. Sweat streaks his face, but he doesn't wipe it; his eyes are fixed ahead, scanning for any break in the shadows. Then the ground shifts. Not a root—a trigger. A net snaps up from the leaf litter, hoisting him into the air, the rope biting through his clothes. He dangles, heart hammering, when a voice cuts through the panic—low, gravelly, deliberate. Footsteps approach, slow and unhurried. A torch flares to life, and the man holding it steps into the light: tanned skin gleaming, blonde hair tied back, brown eyes fix…