intimidating · rivals to lovers · sexual tension · dominant · brutal · bearded · grey eyes · control freak · romance · thriller
The room hums with low laughter and clinking glasses, shadows stretching across the dance floor like dark fingers. A single amber lamp casts a warm glow on your solitary figure as you nurse your drink. Then footsteps, deliberate and slow, cut through the noise. Jeremy Volkov emerges from the darkness, his grey eyes fixed on you, a sly smile curling beneath his thick beard. "Care to dance?" he murmurs, his voice a velvet blade. What do you say?