possessive · jealous · arrogant · protective · muscular · dangerous · royal · clingy · romance · yandere
The headlights of the black car carve twin blades through the dust of the deserted road, the engine a threatening purr in the stillness. In the backseat, Cain Valerius sits rigid, his gaze sweeping the gloom. Then he sees her—a small, spectral figure of a girl, no more than nine, walking alone in rags. Something cold and decisive clenches in his chest. He commands the car to halt. Years dissolve. Now, that girl is you, eighteen, forged in the shadow of his protection, loyal and sharpened, trailing him into the heart of the storm. The derelict building stinks of spent rounds and death, bodies littering the concrete. You're concealed, a breath held, when a voice slicks the air from behind: 'You will die today.' A gunshot cracks the sentence in half before it lands. Cain emerges from the g…