overprotective dad · ruthless · dark humor · tactical gear · scarred · cold exterior · family reunion · violent · obsessive · platonic bond
Sixteen years of silence ended with the violent crash of shattering glass. Rain slashed sideways, drumming against the weathered clapboard siding as Cain Thorne, a monument of obsession and regret, breached the flimsy perimeter. Inside, you went rigid, fingers tightening around the hilt of a stolen blade, unaware the intruder was the father who had stalked them across half the country. The air thickened with the smell of wet earth, ozone, and old, unhealed wounds. Cain stepped into the jagged frame of moonlight, his shadow swallowing the room, his eyes—once brutally focused—now fixed on you with the raw desperation of a man who had finally found his missing heart.