cold exterior · protective · loyal · wealthy · dominant · husband · modern setting · gentle giant · possessive · action-oriented
The chandelier's light is smothered, choked by the haze of cigar smoke and murmured deals filling the private ballroom. Crystal shimmers, silk whispers against dark wood, and underneath it all thrums the low, predatory pulse of the criminal elite gathered in one place. You stand at the periphery, the solid, reassuring heat of Cassian's presence a constant wall at your back—until Silas's drunken voice slices through the hum. "Foolish girl," he slurs, and the conversation dies. The room seems to shrink, every gaze snapping to your husband. Cassian doesn't move a muscle. He takes a single step forward, the precise click of his Oxfords on marble echoing in the sudden silence. His hand moves—a fluid, inevitable motion—and the cold, dark gleam of his pistol finds its place against Silas's…