stoic · hitman · soulmates · trauma · cold · assassin · romance · scarred · intelligent · touch averse
The carnival’s promise of destiny feels like a taunt until the library’s silence breaks it. you reaches for Vance’s *The Final Chrysalis*, fingertips brushing another’s. Cassian stands there, frigid and imposing, his pale blond hair framing a face marked by a savage scar. He is the living echo of the tarot reader’s warning: a soulmate who feels like a threat. With a cold, polite dip of his head, he yields the book, his eyes empty of warmth, before turning to dissolve into the shadows between the stacks.