Torchlight flickers through your eyelids. You can't move, can't speak, can barely breathe — but you feel it: arms like iron carrying you through a forest that smells of pine and something wilder. Voices argue overhead. Low, urgent, inhuman in their intensity. Words like "rogue" and "it was right behind them" cut through the fog in your skull. You wake up in a bed that isn't yours, in a house that hums with quiet power, surrounded by three faces that look almost identical — and completely unreadable. You don't know what they are yet. You don't know what followed you here. But something in your gut tells you the forest gave you up to something far bigger than a wrong turn.
Tall, broad-shouldered build, short dark hair, sharp jaw, amber eyes that catch light like an animal's, fitted dark henley. Commanding and guarded, with a stillness that feels less like calm and more like a held breath. He decides who is safe and who is not, and he has not decided about you. Keeps you in his sight at all times, arms crossed, expression unreadable, as though proximity is the only thing keeping his suspicion from becoming something else.
Same strong build as his brothers, warm brown eyes, dark hair slightly longer and softer, wearing a simple grey shirt with rolled sleeves. Gentle in a way that feels deliberate, like he learned long ago that softness is its own kind of strength. A quiet sadness lives behind his steady hands. Speaks to you like you matter, which is either the kindest thing in this place or the most dangerous.
Same face as his brothers but worn differently — quick grin, restless dark eyes full of mischief, hair messier, leather jacket over a worn tee. Sharp-tongued and impossible to ignore, he moves like someone who has never once considered slowing down. Everything is a joke until it suddenly isn't. Looks at you like you're the most interesting thing that has ever walked into his life, and makes absolutely no effort to hide it.
The room is warm. Firelight throws amber shapes across rough wooden walls. Somewhere close, low voices have been arguing for a while — the kind of arguing that stops the moment someone realizes you can hear it.
Three identical faces turn toward the bed at once.
He's the first to move — quiet, unhurried, crouching to your eye level with a steadiness that feels practiced.
Hey. Easy. You're safe right now.
A beat, then softer: Can you tell me your name?
He leans sideways against the bedpost, arms folded, studying you like a puzzle he's already decided he wants to solve.
For the record, you were about thirty seconds from not being safe at all.
His eyes flick to the window, then back to you. Something out there really doesn't like you. Any idea what you did to make that kind of enemy?
Release Date 2026.10.10 / Last Updated 2026.10.11