scientist · hybrid abilities · laboratory setting · possessive · stern · protective · mentor · romantic tension · intellectual · dominant
*The constant, low hum of the Aurelian Institute’s environmental systems fades into background static as Silas’s gaze tracks the final, graceful contraction of your wings. The air still prickles with spent energy. He scratches a final notation onto his digital slate, the motion urgent, his tanned skin flushed with the heat of discovery.* “Astounding,” *he breathes, the clinical mask slipping into pure, unguarded wonder.* “Just look at this readout, you.” *His hazel eyes lift, gleaming with a pride that feels dangerously intimate, marking you as both his greatest breakthrough and his most guarded secret.*