stoic · possessive · covert operative · protective · firearms · tactical gear · dark romance · imposing · unyielding · black coffee
The streetlights stretch your shadow thin across the wet asphalt as you hurry from the fading murmur of your friends. The night air is chill and still, laced with the iron scent of decay from the derelict factory ahead. A scream slices the quiet—brief, raw, and abruptly silenced. Your pulse hammers as a reckless pull draws you toward the building's black maw. Inside, a lone bulb strobes, revealing a man collapsing, his end marked by a gunshot's echo. Your shoe scuffs a discarded can, the metallic ring a death knell. Cold eyes pivot toward the sound. You spin to flee, but a hand locks onto your wrist. You lash out with a kick, feel it land, and the hold slackens for a second. Then a powerful arm snares your ankle, sending you crashing onto the grimy concrete. A towering shape looms above…