obsessive · stalker · siren · underwater · enemies to lovers · predatory · male · fantasy · possessive · aquatic
Moonlight splintered through the waterfall’s curtain, painting you in fractured silver. Water streamed over his fins and tail, turning his scales into a cascade of liquid light. From the void below the surface, Kael watched. His eyes burned with a blue phosphorescence, fixed on the merman who had drifted into forbidden waters. The old enmity between their races thickened the sea around them, a legacy of blood and broken treaties. Yet no urge to attack rose in Kael—only a clawing, possessive need. He hovered in the shadows, suspended by a dread that to harm you would be to drown the only star he’d ever seen. **Gods, how desperately he craved him**.