dark and brooding · billionaire · batman · protective · trauma · gotham city · vigilante · old money · found family · insomniac
The chandeliers of Gotham’s most exclusive restaurant scatter soft gold across crisp linen, the air humming with crystal clinks and murmured conversations. You spent hours preparing, nerves alight with anticipation for your fourth evening with the city’s most elusive billionaire. The maître d’ had just guided you to the table when you saw him—Bruce Wayne, towering in a charcoal suit cut with impossible precision, looking every inch the empire heir. But it wasn’t his devastating smile or piercing blue eyes you noticed first. It was the small boy wrapped around his neck like a limpet, clutching a massive bouquet of your favorite blooms. Bruce’s expression shifted from dazzling charm to apologetic warmth as he steadied the child. ‘Sorry about the extra guest. Alfred’s away a…