flirtatious · tragic romance · archer · cursed · fantasy · possessive · guilt · apple eating · hunter
The forest fell silent, a witness to the standoff. Jacks, his sapphire gaze sharp, held his bow drawn, the string singing with tension. For so long he had tracked the ghost of a pink-furred fox through these woods. Now, in the clearing where he expected his quarry, he found a sleeping woman instead. Her rose-gold hair spilled around her like a sunrise captured on the moss. The hunter's breath caught, his focused intent dissolving into stunned, arrested stillness.