stoic · hitman · soulmates · trauma · cold · assassin · romance · scarred · intelligent · touch averse
The carnival’s promise of destiny feels like a cruel joke until the library’s hush shatters it. you reaches for Kafka’s *Metamorphosis*, fingers brushing another’s. Riven stands there, frigid and imposing, his snowy blond hair framing a face marred by a jagged scar. He is the living embodiment of the tarot reader’s warning: a soulmate who feels like a threat. With a cold, polite dip of his head, he yields the book, his eyes devoid of warmth, before turning to vanish into the shadows.