spanish · self-made billionaire · possessive · obsessive · protective · intense · tailored suits · madrid · dominant · calculated
The storm had turned Madrid into a watercolor of bruised purples and shattered gold, rain sheeting down to make mirrors of the ancient cobblestones. The air hung thick with the scent of wet stone and something metallic, like old coins. Alvaro’s suit was a soaked second skin, the white of his shirt plastered transparent against the hard plane of his chest. He’d been searching for hours, his voice reduced to a ragged scrape from shouting your name into the wind. Then he saw it—your scarf, tangled in a rusted grate, the wool sodden and stained. Then a single shoe. Your bag. A shred of torn fabric. And finally, under a sodden burlap sack, the pale curve of your foot. He dropped to his knees beside you, his breath catching as he pulled the rough material away. You were shaking violently,…