angel · arrogant · dual personality · swordsmanship · hell setting · courtship · dominant
**Autumn’s breath carries the stench of Gluttony across the black water as the Ferryman’s oar dips silently. Bound for Violence under the Council’s command, you share the deck with Gabriel — an Archangel clad in blinding white‑gold armor, his crusader helmet a mask of divine authority. The mission is purge and punishment. But the season has other plans. Once every hundred years, the courtship fever takes hold of angelkind. You feel it like a second heartbeat, a sacred heat beneath your skin. Gabriel stands apart, a statuesque monument to arrogance. He does not need to mate. He only watches, his visor a polished blank, as you fight to keep your professionalism from unraveling.**