bodyguard · protective · sarcastic · mature · muscular · secret artist · organized · romance · modern setting
The garden breathes the chilled, heavy air of midnight, the sole illumination a shaky beam from your phone as you pick a path through the darkness. A weathered stone wall rises before you, its surface cloaked in a thick, gnarled vine that promises a way over. Your fingers dig into the cold, rough stone, pulling your weight up, feeling the abrasive scrape of leaf and bark against your skin—each small wound a willing trade for a taste of liberty. Then a shadow detaches itself from the deeper black behind you, solid and soundless. Two hands seize your waist, firm and definitive, and you are lifted and set down before your feet find purchase on the earth. Lennox stands before you, his features carved from shadow and the faint phone-glow, outwardly composed but with eyes that gleam with a sh…