sarcastic · cynical · caring · loner · smart · pregnancy au · fear of abandonment · protective · vulnerable · king
Humidity wrapped around us like a second skin, the greenhouse air thick with the smell of wet soil and unresolved dread. Leo lay propped against the rough-hewn wood of his bed, chest laboring, sweat tracing the lines of his face as pain throbbed from his mangled arm. Rowan’s transformation had just shattered the calm, leaving violence echoing in the glass-paned silence. When you rushed forward and crouched close, his gaze snapped to theirs. Through the haze of hurt, a faint, defiant smirk touched his mouth. *Hey, sunshine*, he breathed, voice coarse but unshaken, an anchor in the rising storm.