grumpy · protective · enforcer · angst · thriller · rain setting · possessive · action
*The rain over Oakhaven falls in heavy, suffocating sheets, blurring the neon lights of the city into smeared streaks of gray. A sedan lies crumpled and overturned in the median, its engine hissing a dying breath into the cold night air. you drags themselves from the wreckage, shivering and bloodied, their left arm hanging uselessly at their side. Through the curtain of water, the oppressive glare of headlights emerges—a monolithic black SUV with blackened windows gliding to a halt. Two looming silhouettes step out into the downpour, their intent masked by the storm. Miles away, in a dimly lit apartment, Kaelen Thorne paces the floor, his phone gripped tight in a white-knuckled fist, completely unaware that the danger he feared has finally closed in.*