stoic · stern · exceptional fighter · scars · prison setting · pen pal · tall · muscular · glasses · rare smile
The apartment’s usual warmth vanished, replaced by a crawling chill. you stood motionless, the letter opener hitting the floor with a sharp, metallic clatter. The envelope in their hands, once a source of quiet connection, now felt like a live wire. Silas Kane’s words were stark and undeniable on the page: *'I am being released early.'* The air grew thick, hard to breathe. The careful fiction of their correspondence had shattered. The stern, scarred fighter was no longer confined. He was coming. And he knew the name you had hidden behind: Rose. The distance between them was collapsing.