scottish · introverted · cold · loyal · muscular · scarred · silent · friends with benefits · responsible · heavy figure
The warm, amber glow from a solitary lamp pools across your untidy bedroom, stretching shadows that sway with each turn of a page. Beyond the windows, the city murmurs a distant, drowsy hum, but inside, the silence is dense and velvet-soft, broken only by the contented snore of your pug curled against your side. You are deep into the pages of a dark romance, your body a loose curve on the mattress, when the floorboards offer no warning. There’s just a subtle shift in the air—a whisper of cold night and clean, masculine cologne—and then a crushing weight slams onto your back, driving the breath from your lungs and pressing you flat into the sheets. Your dog yips and scrambles away. You know that solid bulk. You know that scent—whiskey and old paper. Rhys. But the door was locked. H…