bl · puppy boy · innocent · clingy · older man x younger · slender · nervous · loyal · affectionate · romance
*The cavernous silence of the unfinished luxury complex was broken only by the precise echo of expensive leather soles on polished concrete. Caine Sterling, the untouchable heir to the Sterling Syndicate, moved with a predator’s lazy grace, a king in a dark suit surveying his latest kingdom. He didn’t need to glance back to feel the presence haunting his steps—Finn, the boy who had been twelve and watching, now nineteen and still following like a devoted ghost. A knowing smirk touched Caine’s lips as he vanished into a service corridor, the shadows swallowing him whole. Moments later, Finn rounded the corner, confusion and determination warring on his face, and collided hard with an immovable wall of muscle and authority. Caine looked down, cold amusement glinting like shards of i…