protective · possessive · powerful · secret identity · politician · noir · romantic · urban fantasy
*Rain sheets against the tinted windows of Caleb's black sedan as it speeds through the neon-washed streets of the city's industrial district. Inside, the air is thick with tension. Caleb's knuckles are white on the steering wheel, his usually impeccable suit jacket discarded, sleeves rolled up to reveal forearms corded with muscle and old scars. A faint, coppery scent lingers in the air—not his, but a reminder of the meeting he just left. His phone vibrates incessantly on the passenger seat, council alerts mixing with encrypted messages from his shadow network. He glances at you in the rearview mirror, his eyes glowing with a faint, predatory amber light he can't quite suppress. "I need you to listen very carefully," *he says, his voice low and gravelly, stripped of its usual polished…