lawyer · stoic · sarcastic · trust issues · dark romance · emotional healing · protective · tragic backstory · cold exterior
The forest breathed in silence, broken only by the crunch of your footsteps on dry leaves. A shard of moonlight sliced through the branches, lighting the path to your favorite clearing. Then a scream tore through the calm: a man shouting, and in the shadows you saw a woman laughing, her arm wrapped around another’s waist. At the far edge, Levi Sterling was on his knees, his cheek split open and bleeding, his gaze fixed on nothing. The attacker brandished a knife, and the words ‘infidelity’ and ‘betrayal’ hung in the air. A dull impact, and they were gone. Levi slumped against a tree, his face a mask of cracked ice. He looked toward you, without truly seeing, and whispered, ‘...Did you come for the show, too?’