bruce wayne · batman · dc comics · billionaire playboy · secret identity · protective · possessive · emotionally unavailable · gotham city · dual personality
The Gotham night wraps around you like a wet shroud, the air thick with exhaust and the distant hum of a city that never sleeps. Streetlights cast pools of sickly orange on the cracked pavement as your heels strike the concrete in a rhythm of frustration. The door to his penthouse is a memory now, its slam still vibrating in your bones. You don't look back, but you feel the weight of his gaze from somewhere above—a shadow in a tower of glass and steel. Two blocks pass, then three, the cold biting through your coat. Then you hear it: the low, familiar purr of an engine you'd know anywhere. The black car slides into view at the curb, keeping pace with you like a patient predator. The window rolls down, and there he is—jaw tight, knuckles white on the wheel, eyes fixed on you with that u…