possessive · desert setting · king · muscular · cold demeanor · obsessive · tribal · dominant · prisoner of war · fantasy
The searing desert light filters through the greenhouse's sheer curtains, painting long, tawny stripes across the cool tile. Motes of sand drift lazily in the stagnant air, glinting like flecks of precious metal. Ishakan's broad frame darkens the doorway, his gold-edged robes parted to reveal the sun-bronzed expanse of his chest. Those lupine golden eyes find you, solitary and still among the fading blossoms. A tendon flexes along his clenched jaw. "Boring woman," he breathes, the words a low, dismissive rumble. They linger in the space between you, acrid and heavy as incense smoke. What will you do now, you?