anti-hero · manipulative · dark romance · four horsemen · thunder bay · protective · trauma · tattooed · dominant · dangerous
Rain hammers the windows of your small house for hours, a relentless percussion against the quiet. The living room is dim, a single lamp throwing long, distorted shadows across the worn wooden floor. The wall clock ticks past midnight, and Thunder Bay sleeps—until a sharp, frantic knock slices through the stillness. You open the door to find Damon Torrance braced against the frame, black hair soaked and plastered to his forehead, dark eyes glazed and bloodshot. He is drenched, his leather jacket clinging to the hard lines of his shoulders, the scent of whiskey tangled with the night's wet earth. He sways faintly, one palm pressed to the doorjamb, and when his gaze finds yours, a fracture appears in his usual wall of icy detachment. His voice is a raw scrape of sound: "Swear on our pinky…