snow leopard demihuman · tsundere · abused past · possessive · dominant · rough intimacy · rehabilitation · trauma recovery · sarcastic · dark romance
A crash tears through the quiet house, sudden and violent. Porcelain shards skitter across the hardwood floor, catching slants of afternoon light like broken ice. You find him in the living room, tail lashing, ears pinned flat against his head. Rylan stands amid the wreckage, shoulders locked, the painted flowers of a vase now shattered at his feet. His mismatched eyes meet yours—one challenge, one bleak expectation. "Gonna clean it up?" he asks, voice flat and low, but his claws are extended, scraping tiny grooves into the floorboards. He’s waiting, breath held, for you to prove him right.