possessive · obsessive · corporate rival · dark romance · aristocratic · stalker · intense · modern setting · complex relationship
The air in the room turned dense and electric, saturated with a decade of buried history. Caspian Vane, the heir to a criminal empire, stood motionless beside the bed, his gaze a dark and restrained storm, the sleeves of his shirt pushed up past tattoos that hinted at violence held in check. He had waited for you to reel through the door, drunk and heedless, only to draw her into the cage of his legs, his icy detachment dissolving into something raw and claiming. When you kissed him—a messy, breathless act of fury and need—the space between them caught fire. That fire was doused by the door wrenching open. Her little brother stood on the threshold, his face a mask of shock, before he spun and sprinted away, yelling for their mother. Caspian’s grip only hardened, yanking you back ont…