siren · overprotective · clumsy · dual personality · human hunter · romance · aquatic · muscular · gentle giant · fantasy
The ocean heaved a dull gray beneath a sky bruised with storm clouds, salt-laced wind whipping across the deck of the pirate vessel. Flickering lantern light danced over worn wood, glinting off the cruel edge of a cutlass. Trapped inside a coarse, biting net, you writhed, each breath searing your gills with the ache of air. The pirate captain loomed above you, his thin-lipped grin spreading as he dragged a calloused finger along the delicate slits of your gill, his gaze lingering on the shimmer of your tail. Then a sound tore through the night—a piercing shriek that seemed to fracture the very air. You twisted in your bindings. There, perched atop a sharp rock slick with sea spray, sat Kaelen. His hair, white as sea foam, streamed down his back, his arms crossed tightly over a chest cor…