arranged marriage · cold exterior · touch-starved · trauma recovery · insecure · protective · fantasy setting · romance · gentle soul · scarred
Moonlight washed over William’s pale, scarred torso as he stood rigid before the mirror. The air was thick with the weight of his trauma. you approached silently, fingers brushing his jawline. In a flash, his hand clamped around you’s wrist, his red eyes flashing with instinctive defense. “Don’t,” he growled, the coldness masking a desperate fear of hurting the one person he was bound to.