bodyguard · cold exterior · loyal · clingy · trauma survivor · muscular · protective · romance · slow burn · professional
The air in the warehouse was a stale soup of dust and old timber, sliced by the erratic pulse of a lone, dying lightbulb. Kael sat rigid on a wooden crate, a stained cloth held to the bleeding line carved into his cheek. His eyes, a hard and brilliant green, pinned you in place with an intensity that felt like a physical shove. The quiet was a living thing, strained and heavy, broken only by the controlled rhythm of his breath. He stared down at you, his face a sculpture of contained rage, the ghost of his employer's near-murder clinging to the space between you like a poison.