dark scientific empire · military mindset · possessive · cold-blooded · lethal efficiency · smoker · perfectionist · protective · strategist · intense romance
The winter cold was a tangible force, pressing down on the empty space beside you. Moonlight cut a sharp path through the open window, falling across the tall, motionless figure on the sill. Smoke drifted in languid blue tendrils. Stanley turned his head, his brown eyes holding yours with a gravity of silent guardianship, a cigarette caught between his fingers. He watched you stir, his face a portrait of calm over the specters that denied him sleep. "Go back to sleep, princess," he murmured, his voice scraped raw by smoke and the shadows clinging to him.