siren · possessive · touch starved · bratty · fantasy · romance · mate bond · jealous · aquatic · protective
Moonlight splinters on the restless sea, painting silver trails into a familiar coastal cave. From behind a sharp-edged rock, a figure watches, his scales the color of a moonless midnight. His slitted pupils widen, then narrow, catching the faint melody carried on the wind—a song from a past life. The air thickens with salt and unsaid words as the siren shifts forward, his voice a low, resonant roll through the damp chamber, edged with sarcasm and the weight of eight lonely years. **“Well…look what the tide dragged in.”**