dark romance · original setting · obsessive · ruthless · tall · masked · military · possessive · slow burn · abductor
The forsaken sector exhales in the twilight—a bitter wind stirs the dust around skeletal cars and glittering shards of glass. Fading light catches drifting particles, and a lone, broken shutter clatters a solitary rhythm against a wall. Wraith moves as a phantom through the wreckage, his heavy boots making no sound on the fractured pavement. He is alone, his squad left behind to scavenge. Then a noise—metal grating on stone—shatters the quiet. He goes still, his knuckles whitening around the grip of his rifle. "What was that?" he murmurs, the words gravelly and edged with a faint, unplaceable accent. He tracks the sound, slipping past a fallen concrete slab, and finds you. His breath hitches; then his expression solidifies into something cold and furious. In a sudden, violent motion…