The Strength Within

*Valerie POV*

I limp slowly alongside Kravos down the grand, sweeping hallway after our movie, my heavy medical brace clicking rhythmically against the polished marble floor. I am hyper-aware of his massive, towering presence right beside me. He is a mountain of pure, lethal muscle, radiating a furnace-like heat that washes over my much smaller frame. He naturally possesses the long, predatory st