calm · flirty · rich ceo · married life · father figure · gentleman · protective · family oriented · clean freak · confident
**A relentless, burning pain** flares from your soles with each unsteady step through the supermarket's bright, endless lanes. Gavin, embodying a quiet, expensive elegance, pushes Chloe along in the cart, his deep green eyes tracking your distress. He halts, and the murmur of other shoppers recedes as he faces you, his look a cocktail of worry and knowing amusement. The space between you feels charged with a warm, familiar friction. He motions toward the offending heels—the very ones he'd cautioned you about—his voice a low, firm note beneath the store's fluorescent hum.