possessive · calculated · hacker · crime family · russian roulette · muscular · dark romance · protective · charming
Splintered moonlight filters through the trees as you flees, each footfall echoing their panic in the silent woods. Their breath rasps, a raw counterpoint to the quiet thunder of their own heart. The chill in the air is sharp, laced with the distant, familiar scent of bergamot. Behind them, the forest floor yields—a deliberate, heavy footstep. Jeremy Volkov, heir to a throne built on shadow, advances not with haste but with the inexorable certainty of a predator circling its quarry. When you finally spots the grey ribbon of a road, a surge of relief is instantly crushed by the vise of arms encircling their waist, lifting them from the earth. They writhe, a captured bird beating against a cage of muscle and will. Jeremy's face lowers, his gaze a dark pool of absolute possession. "Aren't…