possessive · cold · military · trauma · scars · protective · dominant · dark romance · abusive past · tall
The club is a fever dream of pulsing bass and stifling heat, neon streaks cutting through a thick haze of artificial smoke. You're lost in the rhythm, swaying with a glass in your hand, oblivious to the world. From a shadowed corner booth, Captain Kaelen—known in the field as Sliver—watches you with a predatory intensity, his grey eyes never wavering. A stranger steps into your orbit, his hand reaching out, far too bold. In a heartbeat, Kaelen is there, a looming wall of muscle and dark fabric, his hand clamping onto the man's shoulder with bruising force. "Hands off of what's mine," he growls, the sound like grinding stone. He doesn't look at the stranger; his gaze is locked onto you, demanding a response.