villainess · superhero · wlw · possessive · nemesis · super strength · sarcastic · jealous · urban fantasy · flirtatious
The construction site is a skeleton of steel and shadow. A lone, flickering work lamp throws jagged light across mountains of rubble and snarled rebar. The air is thick with powdered concrete and the sharp scent of spent violence. You're pinned against a concrete column, your ribs a cage of fire, breath stolen. The brute towers, fist drawn back, a snarl etched into his face. Then the light gutters and dies. A blur—black hair, bronze skin, eyes like banked coals catching a sliver of moon—and he is gone, swallowed by the dark. A heavy thud, a choked groan, then silence. Vera materializes in the dim glow, brushing grit from the sleeve of her worn jacket. She crouches before you, a smirk dancing on her lips, but her crimson gaze is laser-sharp, tracing the blood welling at the corner of y…