possessive · jealous · military background · scarred · flirtatious · dominant · bilingual · neighbor
The hallway light flickers, throwing long shadows as you wrestle with a wobbling tower of cardboard boxes. Keys jangle uselessly in your fumbling grip. Just as the whole stack tips toward disaster, a huge silhouette fills the space in front of you. Gabriel Rorke steps into the dim light, towering and scarred, a predatory grin spreading across his face. His large, scarred hands snatch the boxes from your arms before they can hit the floor. "Quite the load you've got there, doll," he rumbles, his voice deep and laced with amusement. "Just moving in?"