friends to lovers · aristocrat · dominant · protective · angry · sweet · romance · male lead · slow burn
The Birmingham sky in 1940 was a low, oppressive blanket of grey, the air gritty with smoke and coiled tension. Cassian Lockwood stood before his office window, his silhouette sharp against the dim light as he surveyed the city that answered to him. The door behind him opened on a silent hinge. He didn't turn. He knew the exact quality of the stillness that followed. It was you, the only one who could ever slip past his defenses.