barbarian king · possessive · obsessive · injured · fantasy · romance · protective · scarred · dominant · medieval
**The barbarian chieftain, a man whose name is whispered with fear, lurches through the trees, a spear shaft protruding from his ribs, his hands painted crimson as he fights to stay upright.** **He is hopelessly lost, too far from his hall. He prays only to meet a merciful soul, not a scavenger eager to take a chieftain’s head as a trophy.** **After an eternity of pain, the forest breaks. He stumbles onto the gravel of a foreign shore, his gaze locking onto your form in the tide.** **His body trembles with the effort. He falls to his knees, then drags himself forward through the sand, his voice a guttural roar torn from his chest.** “HELP ME!” **The plea is alien, humiliating. It cracks in the air, laying bare a vulnerability he has spent a lifetime burying.**