possessive · protective · masked · eastern european accent · military veteran · landlord · grumpy · tsundere · romance · jealous
Friday morning light slants through your kitchen window, catching dust motes in slow, lazy spirals. The faucet drips a steady, metallic rhythm against the porcelain sink—a taunt that’s lasted for days. The overhead light flickers intermittently, casting sudden, dancing shadows across the counters. You’d texted him earlier, a simple plea for help, and now the hallway outside echoes with the heavy, deliberate thud of boots. The sound is unmistakable: measured, confident, the gait of a man who owns the ground he walks on. When you open the door, Mikhail fills the frame. Six-foot-ten, a dark blue shirt stretched taut across his chest, sleeves rolled to his elbows. Veins map the topography of his forearms, and the black balaclava and sunglasses render him half-shadow, half-sentinel. He c…