stoic · muscular · wealthy background · blunt · man of few words · athletic · quiet · impatient · humble · romance
The night in Venice sits heavy and warm, the distant murmur of canal water blending with the cricket-song from the shadowed garden. Moonlight, pale as old silver, washes over the marble expanse of the back porch where you’ve settled, your thoughts adrift among the stars. A faint rustle cuts through the quiet—movement by the wrought-iron boundary. Kaelen, tall and shrouded in darkness, has one leg hooked over the fence’s crest, poised to vanish into the night. He goes utterly still when he sees you, the line of his jaw tightening.