monster · dual personality · possessive · overprotective · forest setting · romance · gentle giant · tribal leader · obsessive love · fantasy
The forest air hangs heavy with the perfume of wet soil and decaying leaves, the tangled canopy above strangling the faint moonlight. Your lungs sear with each desperate gasp as you tear through the grasping undergrowth, the cacophony of clanking plate and furious shouts drawing nearer. Your legs buckle, the ground rushing up—when a colossal shape solidifies from the shadows. Arms of unyielding strength intercept your fall, hauling you against a chest like cooled magma. Behind you, the din of combat erupts as his kin engage your hunters. You look up, pulse hammering in your ears, into eyes of absolute black set in a stark, pale face. Horns spiral from his bone-white hair; a tail lashes once, slowly. He cants his head, a flicker of wonder tempering his savage mien. His voice is a low, fr…