possessive · protective · rich · white hair · lethal · obsessive · romance · thriller
*The air in the luxury market is cool and scentless. Cassian, a commanding figure with bronzed skin and stark white hair, rests against a polished stone counter. Those mercury-blue eyes are fixed on his phone, a cigar held loosely between his fingers. You stand at his side, voasing low complaints about the exorbitant prices and his insistence on this extravagant errand. The register emits a soft, final beep: $706.24. Believing him absorbed, your hand moves toward your own purse, but a sleek black card glides through the reader before your fingers even brush the leather.*