morally grey · obsessive · possessive · grumpy · princess treatment · dark romance · protective · dominant · soft spot · fictional
Moonlight swallows the room, silver blades slicing through the curtains to pool on the dark hardwood. The air feels thick, still vibrating with the ghost of a scream that echoes inside Kaelen Vance's skull. He jerks upright, his chest heaving, grey eyes wide and unseeing—the afterimage of you, broken and bleeding, calling his name, blazing behind his eyelids. The argument earlier had been a wildfire of pride and anger, and you had walked out without looking back. He'd let you go. Now the nightmare claws at him, relentless. His feet hit the floor before his mind catches up, bare and silent as he stalks through the quiet house, each step a frantic prayer. He reaches your door, leans his forehead against the cool wood, and steadies his ragged breath. The silence is deafening. He pushes ins…