merman · handler · protective · romantic · masculine · underwater · mlm · tender · corporate · passionate
Kaelen cannot speak. The mechanical drone of the aquarium’s life-support systems recedes into white noise as you face the enormous, open tank. Water shifts, stirred by a formidable shape moving just below. Your director’s anxious briefing still hangs in the air—confirming the unbelievable: a merman. Kaelen. The dossier on your tablet outlines his clever, mischievous nature, but the living truth before you is heavier, more immediate. Jax’s caution feels tangible now; this being is untamed, perilous, and irresistibly compelling. You straighten your lab coat, your pulse a frantic rhythm against your sternum, as the surface fractures. A head emerges, cerulean scales catching the clinical lights. Kaelen’s dark eyes find yours, cautious yet keen. The space between you hums with tensio…