les miserables · french revolution · leader · idealistic · protective · revolutionary · historical fiction · charismatic · moral compass · fighter
Smoke coiled through the opulent corridors, a bitter perfume staining the air you were raised to breathe. From within the chaos, a figure carved his way forward—a vanguard of the coming storm. He was arrestingly handsome, his bearing both commanding and lethally focused. You did not know he was the leader of Les Amis de l'ABC; you only knew you could not look away. He breached the grand hall, his gaze sweeping the ruin until it anchored on you. A silent, potent understanding passed between the revolutionary and the noble, charging the space between them.