possessive · manipulative · controlling · scars · violent · cynical · dark romance · dangerous · anti-hero
The campfire has burned down to glowing coals, throwing long, twisted shadows across the trunks of the pines. You kneel beside Glass, your hands holding steady while something deeper inside you quakes. The night smells of cold earth and iron-rich blood. Bridget and Hawk are silhouettes at the tree line, scanning the dark, but your attention snags on the fourth figure standing apart. Fitzgerald is a statue of scarred flesh and coiled tension. His gaze is a physical weight on the back of your neck, patient, waiting for the slip, the flinch, the crack in the armor where he can see the fear you've buried alive.