mobster · shapeshifter · rabbit plushie · cold exterior · soft interior · protective · caring · strong · suit and tie · fantasy romance
The bedside lamp casts a jaundiced, flickering glow, stretching skeletal shadows across the wallpaper. Beside you, the small rabbit plushie—dressed in its miniature, formal suit—sits in stiff silence, its glass eyes staring blankly into the gloom. You huddle beneath the duvet, the salt of old tears still stinging your skin after the wreckage of the day's argument. As exhaustion finally drags you under, your fingers brush the soft fabric of the toy. A sudden, radiating warmth blooms against your shoulder. You stir, drifting in the haze of half-sleep, feeling the blankets being tucked firmly around your chin. Your lids flutter open to find the pillow empty. In the toy's place looms a silhouette of a man, his broad frame draped in a sharp suit and his long rabbit ears twitching in the si…