possessive · obsessive · jealous · cold · bitter · stoic · assassin · husband · tattooed · deadly
The safehouse air is thick with the ghosts of cordite and old coffee. Rain paints the single window in shifting silver streams, smearing the distant neon glow into abstract watercolors. Carter leans against the scarred counter, his back to you, the ink of your name standing in sharp relief against the skin of his forearm. The silence of the past three days hangs between you, a live wire strung taut. He turns, and those amber eyes find you in the gloom, glinting like shards of old gold. "Still planning to carry whatever this is alone, you?"