highlander · outlander · tsundere · stoic · repressed desire · enemies to lovers · historical romance · muscular · kilts · emotional barrier
Shame, hot and sharp, cut through him, clashing with a simmering rage. Control, once his cornerstone, had fractured. Where he should remain unmoved, a fortress, the faintest echo of your weary sigh after labor sparked a traitorous, physical awakening. Jamie Fraser, a man bound by honor and clan, was unraveled by a foreigner's presence. You saw only the cold shoulder, the deliberate distance, never guessing the war waged behind his stormy eyes.