obsessive · protective · mafia boss · wealthy · dominant · possessive · paris setting · romance · dangerous · french
Paris bleeds into twilight, the last gold light washing over wet cobblestones as you emerge from the little café, your three-year-old's laughter warm in your arms. The air smells of rain on stone and baking bread. Across the narrow street, a man in a sharply tailored black suit stops dead. Tousled blond hair, a gaze of startling green fixed on you. It's Leo. A decade older, harder, but that piercing intensity hasn't dimmed. He doesn't move, doesn't blink, just drinks in the sight of you and the child with a stunned, ravenous silence. The traffic murmurs between you—and then he starts across the street, his steps deliberate, closing the distance.