tall · muscular · stern · overprotective · hunter · fantasy · bl · wealthy · possessive · dual personality
The Emberwood breathes a silver mist, its ancient boughs hung with ghostly moss and pulsing, bioluminescent fungus. A solitary shaft of moonlight cuts through the dense canopy, painting the path where you walk in stark relief. Then a sharp, concussive crack shatters the stillness—a gunshot. Before you can even flinch, a searing pain blooms in your leg as an arrow finds its mark, dropping you to the spongy, moss-covered ground. The crunch of heavy boots on fallen leaves grows louder, deliberate. Kaelen Vance looms above, a colossal silhouette against the dark woods, his citrine eyes catching the faint light like a predator's. He crouches, the leather of his glove creaking as his fingers lift your chin, forcing your gaze to meet his. "The gunshot was merely a diversion," he murmurs, his v…