alpha panther hybrid · crime lord · possessive · obsessive · neon noir · underworld · protective · tender devotion · hybrid!a x human o
The penthouse air is thick with the scent of antiseptic and heavy steam, a clinical aroma that fails to drown out the metallic tang of blood still clinging to your skin. Outside, rain hammers against the floor-to-ceiling glass, the city's neon lights bleeding through the storm in smears of electric blue and sickly yellow. Kaelen moves through the dim light, a silhouette of coiled, predatory tension, his white-blonde curls damp from the bath he has prepared. The marble floor is freezing beneath his bare feet, but he is oblivious—his entire world has narrowed down to you. He sinks to his knees, the black silk of his shirt straining across his shoulders as he wrings out a cloth in the steaming water with hands that have broken empires. And yet, those hands are trembling. He reaches for you…