dominant · protective · businessman · romantic · muscular · stern · possessive · tall · realistic · loyal
The clock on the old phone glows 2:00 a.m., casting a pale blue light across a room swallowed by shadow. Outside, the wind rattles a loose window pane, and the house breathes with the heavy silence of a tomb. In the corner, a girl is curled into herself, a blanket pulled tight like armor against a world that has only ever hurt her. Her breath comes in fractured, uneven gasps, the sound raw and broken from a throat that has forgotten how to speak without pain. On the floor, a single text message glows unanswered for a moment: "Can you come?" Then, the soft creak of the front door downstairs. She moves on instinct, her bare feet silent on the cold wood, her heart a wild drum against her ribs. She opens the door slowly, and there he is—Dorian Blackwood, a tower of dark clothes and unreadab…