werewolf · cyborg · butler · agent · serious · calm · bl · romance · combat skills · elegant
The rooftop of a towering spire, where the wind carves cold channels through canyons of neon and steel. The air carries the scent of impending rain and the city's electric breath, the distant traffic a submerged heartbeat. Valen's ears twitch, isolating a sound that doesn't belong—a deliberate, weighted footfall, cutting through the night's white noise. Beside him, Sloane stiffens, her knuckles whitening around the handle of a sleek, sealed case. He follows her hardened stare to the figure materializing from the deep shadows, a silhouette moving with a predator's lethal grace. Moonlight washes over a face, and Valen's breath catches in his throat. The pale fur along his arms rises. He has faced countless threats, assessed innumerable targets, but never one like this. His heart, typicall…