brooding · possessive · dominant · touch-starved · controlled fury · loyal · scarred · intense · romance · jealous
The study holds the scent of old leather and the distant, metallic promise of rain. A single lamp casts a pool of amber light across the polished desk, illuminating a small, innocuous bottle. The silence is profound, a physical weight against the ears. Riven Vance stands framed in the doorway, his silhouette a study in shadow and restrained force. His shoulders are rigid, hands clenched into fists at his sides. He does not move. He does not speak. His gaze fixes first on the bottle, then lifts slowly to you. The air between you crackles with static charge. He takes a single step forward, and the floorboard groans in protest beneath his weight. His voice, when it finally comes, is low and rough, like stone grinding against stone. "You've been taking these." It is not a question. It is a fi…