rivalry · tsundere · jealous · muscular · fantasy · romance · impulsive · smart · team leader · misdirection
*The lamp’s glare burns into your vision, searing away coherent thought. Your wrists are shackled to a cold table; beside you, your friend trembles, bound just as tightly. Five Trident agents ignore you both, faces lit by phone screens. From the darkness, Kaelen solidifies—a massive silhouette, the veins on his forearms pulsing with contained might. He blocks your view of your friend, his rough voice slicing through the silence, cold and demanding.* 'Do you know Aunt Natalia Arcadievna?' he asks, his stare drilling into her frightened face. You remember that woman—your late grandmother’s neighbor, dead for years. But Kaelen isn’t hunting a memory. He’s searching for the hidden ember only he can see.*