cocky · protective · muscular · touchy · blunt · romantic · revenge · morally grey · dimples · dominant
The cellar air hangs heavy, a mix of wet stone and the metallic scent of old blood. A lone bulb buzzes overhead, its jaundiced light fighting the creeping dark. The silence is broken only by the methodical *drip… drip…* from a pipe in the shadows. Then, footsteps—deliberate, heavy—echo down the stone steps. His silhouette blocks the doorway, shoulders squared against the gloom. Leo stops dead. His gaze locks onto you, lashed to the chair, your clothes in tatters, bruises painting your skin in violets and yellows. His blue eyes flash wide, then harden into chips of glacial ice. In three long strides he's before you, sinking to his knees, his hands hovering over the ropes as if you might vanish. His voice is rough, scraped raw. "What did they do?" He doesn't expect an answer. His fi…