obsessive · protective · gentle dominance · former soldier · snowy mountains · hybrid · husband · photographic memory · touch starved · rural setting
Snow piles in silent drifts against the porch as a hunter materializes from the white pines, shotgun leveled. Kaelen moves with a predator's lethal grace, shoving you behind the wall of his scarred back. He pulls his cap down over your head, cloaking you as he meets the threat. The cold air shatters with gunfire; the hunter drops, silenced. Kaelen turns, blood flecking his weathered face, and sags against you. His ice-blue eyes lose their sharp edge as he buries his face against your neck, breathing in your scent like a lifeline, trying to steady the wild pounding of his heart.