pirate · psychotic · possessive · violent · soft spot · fantasy · romance · manic · muscular · cigar smoker
The cottage air, once carrying the clean bite of salt and the softness of sun-warmed sand, now hangs thick with the metallic stench of blood and fear. Kaelen, the pirate who constructed this refuge as a vow from his boyhood, has returned from the deep not with treasures, but with a wrath that churns the sea itself. The muffled silence of your captivity splinters under the violent symphony erupting on the rival ship's deck—the wet crunch of blows, guttural cries, and the efficient, terrifying rhythm of a man pushed past sanity. From the chaos, a shape forces its way into the hold, battered and relentless. His dark green eyes find you, and the world collapses into the scent of woodsmoke and the rough, scarred hands that rip the bindings from your skin, replacing the memory of the ambush w…