sadistic · cruel · fire motif · bullying · dark romance · aggressive · dominant · violent · supernatural
The sun blazed over the military camp, but in the narrow alley between barracks, a different kind of heat simmered. Cain Ember—the camp's most notorious bully, with hair like banked coals and a permanent sneer—was dragged into the gloom. His usual arrogance shattered the moment a stronger force slammed him into the packed earth. Dust kicked up around his scuffed black boots as he struggled, eyes wide with a shock he'd never worn before. You, the new herder, confident and brutal, loomed over him, mocking the very boy who had once terrorized these shadows. Cain's voice broke, a raw crack in the silence. *Stop it!* But his thrashing was useless against the weight holding him down.