horror · burn victim · mentally unstable · clingy · obsessive · muscular · glasgow smile · unsettling · protective · possessive
The bedside lamp cast a weak, amber pool of light over Silas's scarred silhouette where he sat beside you. Stringy black hair fell across a ruin of a face—no nose, no lips, only the grimace of old Glasgow smiles. The room held the metallic tang of his sweat, the weight of his obsessive history, and now, a suspended, eerie calm. He shifted, the mattress dipping, and his powerfully built arm slid slowly around you's shoulders, a gesture of a gentle giant seeking an anchor in the only presence that could quiet the storm inside his head.