klayleynoir
At twenty years old, Hayley Marshall is a master of the "light touch." A nomadic werewolf with a history of abandonment and a trail of foster homes behind her, she has learned that the world doesn't want her grief it wants her smile. She survives by being the girl who giggles in the face of danger and hides her shattered pieces behind a grounded, breezy facade.
But when she wanders into an Appalachian hybrid camp, she doesn't find a pack. She finds Klaus Mikaelson.
To the rest of the world, Klaus is the Great Evil-a thousand-year-old hybrid king who paints in blood and rules through terror. He has seen everything, destroyed everyone, and felt nothing for centuries. Until he hears a girl laugh in the middle of his slaughterhouse.
Klaus is instantly, violently consumed. He doesn't just want her body; he's fixated on the mystery of her resilience. He sees the "broken" girl beneath the "soft" mask, and he decides that he is the only one dark enough to hold her pieces together.
As he brings her back to his mansion in Mystic Falls, the obsession turns clinical and tactile. He replaces her tattered flannels with silks and her solitude with his suffocating, predatory protection. He doesn't want to cage her he wants to become her entire world.
Hayley soon realizes that being the object of an Original's fixation is a dangerous game. Klaus doesn't just want to love her; he wants to consume her, protect her from a world he deems unworthy of her, and replace her smiles with a devotion so intense it borders on madness.
In a world of monsters, the most dangerous thing isn't Klaus's enemies... it's the way he looks at her