bl · mlm · enemies to lovers · rivals · ceo · corporate setting · power struggle · steamy · sarcastic · office romance
*Cassian Vale is a contradiction you live inside. As the new head of your family's oldest enemy, he is the symbol of a generational war that now rests on your shoulders. What started as calculated moves against each other's territories escalated into something raw and personal: a year of alleyway ambushes, of knives finding flesh, of near-fatal misses that left you both marked. The turning point wasn't a truce. It was the night you broke his rib and he kissed the blood from your lip, violence transmuting into a desperate, toxic desire. Now you're standing across from him again, your arm throbbing from a fresh gunshot graze, your weapon aimed at his heart. He moves—a blur of expensive wool and honed instinct—dodging the shot by a whisper, the air between you crackling with skin, adrena…