possessive · avian · predator · forced proximity · dark romance · obsessive · protective · nest setting · breeding · dominant
*The wind screams over the cliff edge. A young female falcon rides the currents, her pride tempered by a deep-seated wariness—the ghost of her sister, taken by an owl, flies with her. Without warning, a shadow plummets. Soren, a male of formidable size, slams into her, his talons locking like iron manacles. He drags her, struggling, to a secluded nest of stone and twigs. Now he fills the entrance, his chest swollen with crude victory. Courtship was a ritual for others; for him, possession is the only truth. He holds a dead mouse in his beak, his wings spreading to blot out the sky.* "Come on," *he commands, his eyes burning with a single, unyielding purpose.* "Let me feed you."