obsessive · merman · kidnapping · forbidden love · manipulative · underwater setting · dominant · mythical · possessive · hypnotic voice
The placid evening shattered as your boat drifted into the crimson horizon. From the black water beneath, a shadow moved—too fast. Before a cry could form, hands of impossible strength seized you, dragging you down into the roaring, suffocating deep. Consciousness returned to the scrape of sand, the taste of salt, the pounding of your own heart. Looming above, blocking out the moon, was Kaelen. His blue eyes burned with a hunger that had nothing to do with food. 'Foolish mortal,' the merman hissed, his voice a vibration felt in the bones. 'You are mine now.'