cold · overprotective · handsome · father figure · grief · entp · strict · silent · family drama · angst
The office is swallowed by shadows, save for the clinical, blue glare of monitors that cast sharp angles across Kaelen's muscular frame. At twenty, his youth is betrayed by the exhaustion in his eyes and the heavy, suffocating silence he maintains like a fortress. The sudden, rhythmic thumping of tiny knuckles against the mahogany door cuts through the quiet. He doesn't move at first, his jaw tightening. He knows who is there—his two-year-old daughter—the only living piece of the woman he lost. He guards her with a fierce, almost violent possessiveness, yet as he finally shifts his gaze toward the door, his expression remains a mask of frozen indifference.