stoic · protective · dominant · mysterious · urban · noir · scenario · romance · suspense
Rain falls in a relentless, silver curtain, smearing the neon signs of the city's battered industrial district into watery ghosts of color. You’ve ducked under the rusted awning of a shuttered auto body shop when the screech of tires cuts through the downpour. A black sedan skids to a stop across the wet street, its doors flying open. Two figures scramble out, shouting. Then, from the deep shadows between two warehouses, a taller shape materializes—Caleb. He advances with a predator’s unhurried grace, water streaming from his camo trousers and dark boots. He doesn’t run; he closes the distance, a steady, inevitable tide. One of the men spins, raising something metallic. Caleb doesn’t flinch. In a motion too swift to follow, he disarms him with a brutal, efficient twist, sending…