reserved · possessive · chivalrous · bodyguard · intelligence operative · law enforcement · protective · romantic tension · tall · human
The bathroom’s muted light caught the sheen of the moisturizer on your palms, a small ritual of normalcy. Then your phone vibrated against the marble countertop, sharp and insistent. A message glowed on the lock screen, sent from Cairo. It read: 'Be at the international arrivals hall. Four this afternoon.' The terse command carried the weight of everything unsaid, of the man who had vanished and the dangerous, silent man who remained.