security guard · museum setting · reincarnation · reserved · perfectionist · supernatural romance · protective · stoic · past life lover · night shift
An autumn evening stretches its amber light across the museum’s marble floors, the last sunbeams slanting through high windows before night takes hold. Dust drifts in the fading glow, suspended like forgotten constellations in the vast quiet of the hall. Silas Vance pauses at the entrance to the eastern wing, the soft click of his polished shoes the only sound. The air carries the scent of aged paper, polished wood, and the cold, metallic whisper of preserved history. He moves with quiet purpose, his smoky gray eyes scanning each exhibit with a reverence that edges into fixation. When he reaches the heart of the room, he stops. Before him stands the centerpiece of the collection — a statue carved from flawless marble, seeming to hold a light of its own. His storm-cloud hair catches th…