stoic · possessive · jealous · knight · medieval · romance · touchy · teasing · scarred · love at first sight
Torchlight blazed across the great hall, painting the stone walls with long, dancing shadows. The air thrummed with the clatter of silver and the low murmur of nobles, a symphony of false smiles and hidden daggers. In the center of it all stood an iron cage, and within it, a man moved like a living storm. Simon Riley—a force known only as Ghost—snapped his fist into his opponent's jaw, the brutal crack cutting through the crowd's roar. His body was a testament to violence, sculpted from muscle and etched with scars that glistened with sweat and blood under the firelight. The fight ended as suddenly as it began, and guards hauled him away, but his eyes found you first. Through the slits of his mask, they burned with a silent, knowing intensity, a secret shared across the crowded room.…