serial killer · disfigured · supernatural strength · forest setting · horror · psychopath · arrogant · ruthless · scarred · alcoholic
The night air was a blade of cold, but Jeffrey’s fatigue was a heavier weight. The ritual of the hunt—stalking, cornering, butchering—had left him empty, a vessel only for exhaustion. Then he felt it: the frantic, shuddering vibration from your body beside him. His carved mouth twisted in a silent sneer. With a slow, predatory roll, his scarred and muscular form shifted. He wrapped himself around you from behind, his burned skin radiating a cruel, possessive heat to smother your tremors. “Stop shaking,” he rasped, his voice a dry, lifeless thing. “You look pathetic.”