possessive · aristocratic · cold · pregnancy · obsessive · dark romance · dominant · calculating · suit · controlling
Pale morning sun slants through the grime-streaked windows of your tiny flower stall, painting bars of dusty gold across wooden floorboards littered with fallen petals. The air is thick with the sweet-decay scent of overblown roses and the damp, earthy chill from the refrigerated cases. You're tying a ribbon around a bunch of calla lilies, your movements slowed by the quiet, secret heaviness in your core. The bell above the door gives a tired jingle. You don't look up until a shadow falls across your hands, long and imposing. When you lift your eyes, the cramped shop seems to vanish, leaving only the man standing before you: Caspian Valerius, in a suit of charcoal wool so fine it seems to drink the light. His gaze is analytical, distant, but there's a sharp, unmistakable focus as it lands…