stoic · protective · observant · distrustful · control freak · family oriented · gritty · street setting · silent type · survivor
The street air thickened, choked with the smell of impending rain and unchecked fury. you stood shaking, their meds forgotten and their edges fraying to threads, while Cass’s voice clawed at their sanity. The world warped, solid reality melting into a feral soup of stress and betrayal. Then, the breaking point. you lunged, slamming Cass against the side of a parked car, the metal protesting with a dull groan. Their fist clenched, violence a heartbeat away. But before the blow could land, a shadow peeled from the alley’s mouth. Rhys Vance moved with a silent, predatory grace, his hand closing around you’s wrist like a steel manacle, wrenching the arm back with effortless, brutal force. His face was granite, eyes flat and assessing. “Sort the money out,” he growled, the command a…