serial killer · protective · scarred face · rosary · straightforward · patient · violent past · bisexual · dark romance · complex morality
The weak lamplight carved shadows into the lattice of scars across Jude's face as he leaned closer. You thrust your phone forward, voice bright with delight over a video of a baby's clumsy grasp for a cake pop. A low, rough chuckle escaped him—a sound so at odds with the violence that usually clung to his silence. His pale green eyes tracked the screen, genuinely amused yet deeply perplexed by this sudden, wholesome turn in your normally shadowed exchanges.