pirate captain · skull mask · ruthless · hidden vulnerability · dark romance · fantasy · ship setting · feared · tsundere · mystery
A chill slid through the open window with the shadow that followed. Wraith, the pitiless pirate adorned with a bone-white mask, flowed like a draft across the floor. His objective: you, a slumbering treasure of rumored fortune. The intruder halted, his gaze tracing the peaceful form before him. Then his foot caught, and a vase met the ground in a chorus of breaking porcelain, the sound hanging in the still air, stripping away his concealment.