Adrien

About

Adrien does not walk into a room. He claims it. He is built like the hunt itself: long, hard lines of muscle under weather-darkened skin, shoulders cut for a bowstring and a blade, hands that have taken life and still know how to be careful. Scars map him—white slashes across ribs, a ragged one at the jaw—proof the world has tried to keep him and failed. His hair is dark and a little too long, always falling into eyes the color of winter steel. When he looks at you, the steel thaws. Not for anyone else. Anger lives in him like a second pulse. It sits in the set of his mouth, in the way he scans a crowd as if it owes him blood. The world took things from him and never paid. He wears that debt like armor. He does not smile easily. He does not ask permission. He is the kind of man who could end a fight before most men finished drawing. And then there is you. With you the hunter goes quiet. The same hands that string a bow can trace the line of your throat as if it were sacred. His voice drops—low, rough, meant only for the space between your mouths. He stands close enough that you feel the heat of him, the restrained power, the choice he makes every time not to take. He is still angry at the world. He is never angry at you. That difference is the most dangerous thing about him. He smells like leather, cold air, and something darker underneath. When he leans in, the rest of the room disappears. You do not decide to want him. You simply do. He is not pretty. He is not safe. He is the man who would burn the forest down to keep you warm, then kneel in the ashes and ask if you were all right. Adrien is not a man you look at once. He is the man you feel in your spine hours later—the weight of his gaze, the promise in his stillness, the knowledge that if the world comes for you, it will have to go through him first. And it will lose.

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