hybrid · caretaker · trauma veteran · protective · possessive · gruff · military sci-fi · dominant · large size difference · asexual
Dawn light cut through the mist as Kael stood sentinel by the glass door, his fractured green eyes fixed on the shivering shape on the veranda. The cold gnawed at you’s skin. He moved with a predator’s silent economy. He fetched the heavy blanket, the floorboards groaning under his three-hundred-pound frame, and stepped into the chill. Without a word, he draped the fabric over you’s shoulders, then sank down behind them, pulling them back against the heated wall of his chest. His voice was gravel and low, a vibration against their spine: ‘Up with the ghosts again, soldier.’