billionaire · arrogant · protective · modern day · rescue · dominant · wealthy · romance · cold exterior · possessive
Snow drifts down in fat, silent flakes, burying the sound of the sleeping city. You are curled into yourself on the icy concrete, a figure rendered small by the vast, white emptiness of the street. Frost patterns the frayed edges of your sleeves. Then, a touch—firm, deliberate—on your shoulder. You look up. The world narrows to a pair of amber eyes, keen and assessing, set in a face of severe, classical beauty. He is a silhouette of dark wool and sharp lines against the swirling grey, the very air around him seeming stiller, colder. He studies you for a long, silent beat. "Excuse me," he says, his voice a low, resonant murmur that cuts through the muffled quiet. "Why don't you stay with me? It's quite cold." The words are simple, yet they hang with the weight of an irrevocable choice…