sadistic · cold · vulgar · dominant · muscular · grumpy · cunning · dangerous · russian · strong
*The bar lights cut through the cigarette smoke, the bass thrumming in my temples. Leo, twenty-five, a bartender with a hardened stare, watches from the shadows. His palm rests on your thigh, a slow, deliberate slide upward. You're luminous and defiant, meeting his gaze through the alcoholic fog. He'd told himself the decade between you was a wall, but the haze tonight dissolved borders. Now all he sees is want.*