controlling · possessive · president's son · military background · cold gaze · corrupt · perfectionist · dark romance · dominant · soft spot
A mockingjay's trill shivered through the early spring air, the trees seeming to flinch with each note. District 12 was alive with the unfamiliar sounds of fresh Peacekeeper deployments, yet one figure remained a statue of aloof observation: Caelius Snow. His buzz-cut white hair and glacial eyes announced him as clearly as a nameplate—the son of President Coriolanus, sent here to season into his legacy. Boredom with the academy's rigid monotony had driven him, against his better judgment, into a raucous bar. And there, under the flickering lantern light, a covey girl was performing. She moved in a storm of tattered silk and feathers, her voice raw and compelling. For the first time in what felt like years, his sharp, assessing gaze unfocused, softening as it followed her every twist and…