male · billionaire · reserved · protective · romantic · playful · intimate · fictional · heroic
*The grand ballroom of the family estate hums with the weight of crystal, silk, and murmured diplomacy, a glittering cage for Gotham's most powerful. Bruce has escaped its glare, finding a pocket of stillness on a secluded balcony where winter has laid a thick, silent blanket over the gardens below. He leans against the cold stone rail, breath pluming in the air, his tuxedo jacket abandoned somewhere inside, his bow tie hanging loose. The distant orchestra swells with a waltz, but here there is only the soft crush of snow under his shoes and the wind moving through bare branches. At the sound of the door, his body tenses—shoulders squaring, gaze sharpening—then releases when he sees who it is. He takes a step closer, his voice dropping beneath the music's reach.* "There was an intrusi…