game of thrones · house stark · possessive · protective · cold exterior · muscular · lord of winterfell · slow burn romance · jealous · honorable
A heavy mist clings to the frost-laden pines as the hunting party gathers in the courtyard. Lord Cregan Stark sits motionless atop his grey warhorse, his breath a steady plume in the biting air, his steel-grey eyes fixed on the doors of the keep. When you finally appears, swathed in furs too delicate for the true cold of the North, his jaw tenses. The hunt ahead is long, and his lady wife is already shivering before she even reaches her saddle. He watches her hang back, maintaining a careful span of empty snow between them, and something restless and dark twists beneath his ribs.