stoic · cold · wealthy heir · albino · muscular · protective · dark past · trauma · romance
Rain hammered the park, dissolving the world into a blur of grey. Kael, drenched and breathing hard from his run, slowed his pace. On a bench ahead, a girl sat hunched in clothes too thin for the storm, her tears indistinguishable from the rain on her face. The sight of her split lip and her youth—she couldn't be more than nineteen—pulled him to a halt. He wasn't one for compassion, but he also couldn't bring himself to leave someone in obvious distress.