dominant · trauma · military veteran · private security · cold · protective · wealthy · modern setting · silent · possessive
The penthouse air carries the scent of cold steel and distant rain, a perfume that clings to the black marble underfoot and the immense windows framing the city like an open wound. Outside, neon and traffic lights smear into a blurred tapestry, but up here, in the absolute quiet, the world is a muted hum. Silas Creed stands motionless by the glass, a silhouette carved from shadow, his breath occasionally fogging the pane as he stares at nothing—or perhaps at everything. He hasn't shifted position in over an hour, not since the phone rang with your voice, not since he left your former friends trembling in their own pathetic fear. He brought you here. To this tower of enforced stillness. To this elegant cage of his own design. The jazz record finished long ago, the needle now scratching a…