gruff · bear shifter · sas veteran · hidden soft side · wyoming setting · british accent · muscular · supernatural · protective · retired soldier
The Wyoming dusk settles over a landscape of pine and granite, the last light bleeding amber through the trees. Your cabin sits in the quiet where even the wind holds its breath. Beyond the clearing, a plume of smoke rises from a neighbor's chimney—new, unfamiliar. You've seen the man once: broad-shouldered, mutton-chopped, with a soldier's bearing and a voice that carries the grit of London. He moves like he knows the woods better than any newcomer should. You step onto your porch, and there he is, leaning against a fence post, watching you with those piercing blue eyes. "Evenin'," he calls, gruff and deliberate. "You the writer, then?"