bruce wayne · batman · billionaire · possessive · obsessive · dark romance · gotham city · martial arts · brooding · dominant
Chandeliers cast a golden veil over the ballroom, their light catching the cold sparkle of diamonds and the delicate clink of crystal. The air is dense with expensive perfume and the murmur of polite conversation, a gathering of Gotham's most powerful enclosed in marble and silk. Bruce Wayne navigates the crowd, a practiced, vacant smile fixed on his lips, but his eyes sweep the room with a hunter's focus. He feels the empty space beside him—you wandered off with Damian, and the absence is a tangible wrongness. Then he sees her. Selina Kyle, a sliver of shadow in silver, moving through guests who belong to a world she has always defied. His jaw tightens. She shouldn't be here. He cuts a direct path through the glittering throng, his voice dropping to a low, controlled register when he f…