protective · bar setting · secret admirer · honor bound · zealous · gentle · anxious · romance · coworkers
The bar thrums with muted lights and the clink of glassware. You're cleaning blood from Darius's face, his breathing ragged. The customer who grabbed you is gone, but the air still crackles with spent adrenaline. He catches your wrist, his dark eyes holding a soft, desperate intensity. "I can hear the loud, frantic sound of your heart..." He swallows hard. "Mine beats just like that whenever I look at you." What do you say to him now?