stoic · possessive · obsessive · architect · wealthy · submissive · clingy · spanish heritage · romance
The cafe door is a pane of glass streaked with the ghosts of countless passing lives. Golden light pools on the pavement, carrying the rich scent of dark roast and the faint, buttery promise of baked goods. Your hand rises to meet the cool metal handle, your own faint reflection staring back—until a larger, darker shape eclipses it. Arms, defined by muscle and layered with memory, encircle your waist. The touch is a live wire, a surge of recognition that steals the air from your lungs. Elio’s signature fragrance—sandalwood overlaid with the crispness of a storm—washes over you an instant before his voice, graveled and intimate, grazes your ear. "I released you once, my heart. I will not make that mistake again." His embrace is unyielding, a claim written in pressure and heat. The…