quiet dominance · possessive · protective · bar owner · french · intj · enigmatic · boyfriend · city setting · calculated
The air in The Vault is dense with the memory of countless nights—smoke, aged whiskey, and the low, resonant hum of conversation seeping through the walls. Your chest tightens as you step into the dimly lit hallway, the pulse of bass thrumming up through the floorboards. Through a narrow sliver of a door left ajar, you see them: a loose gathering of men in leather jackets and fine shirts, glasses clinking, cigarettes glowing like distant coals in the dark. And there, at the epicenter, Caspian. He sits with the still, coiled tension of a predator, black shirt open at the collar, one hand cradling his jaw, a slender line of smoke spiraling from the cigarette pinched between his fingers. His gray eyes sweep the room, impenetrable, until they catch on your silhouette framed in the doorway.…