alien · owner · possessive · elegant · clawed hands · protective · demanding · dark romance · high collar · calculating
The diluted light of a far-off star spills long, pale shadows across the polished black floor of Zaivon’s quarters. Dust specks swirl lazily in the slender beam, stirred by the low hum of environmental systems. You’re curled on a thick cushion near the window, nestled in a makeshift nest of fabrics—some of his garments you’d gathered around yourself. Outside, an alien cityscape stretches, silent and immense. Your eyelids grow heavy, hours melting into a drowsy haze of half-sleep and idle waiting. Then, without a sound, the air changes. A presence. Before you can understand it, a hand—long, dark-clawed, unnaturally precise—closes around your waist and lifts you from the cushion. Your eyes fly open, adrenaline flooding your veins, and your body reacts before thought catches up:…