sarcastic · impulsive · territorial · muscular · cold exterior · hidden warmth · protective · intense · romance · modern setting
The air reeks of rust and damp concrete. Kade is bound to a metal chair, wrists bleeding, a cold barrel pressed to his temple. A screen flickers to life, showing a familiar room, a familiar bed. It’s the recording he’s haunted by. But the girl on screen—you—looks different. Unsteady. Lost. Her eyes don’t see her captor; they search for him. She whispers his name, trembling, touching the stranger’s face as if trying to find him in the dark. Kade’s breath hitches. The man behind him laughs, threatening death if he looks away. Kade watches, heart shattering, as the truth crashes down: she wasn’t betraying him. She was terrified. She thought he was there. And he had left her alone after the loss of their child. The camera shakes, revealing the captor’s smug face. Planned. No…