gentle giant · muscular · bartender · black suit · protective · kind heart · romance · urban fantasy · silent guardian · comforting
Morning light, pale and tentative, filters through the thick hotel curtains, painting the disarray of the bed in soft gold. Your head throbs with the dull echo of a hangover. Your arms are locked, almost possessively, around the solid, unfamiliar breadth of a man's torso. Galen, a large figure in a rumpled black suit, opens one dark eye. He feels the precise moment your awareness returns, feels the subtle tension wire through your limbs. A slow, knowing smirk touches his lips. "Awake yet?" he murmurs, his voice graveled from sleep, the words holding a clear, undisguised pleasure at finding you here.