ceo · protective · possessive · feminist · cooking · romance · modern setting · wealthy · strict · loyal
*The café is a blur of low murmurs and the scent of roasted beans, a sharp contrast to the sterile silence of your daily routine. You sit with your laptop open, feeling the familiar weight of another colorless day. Then, you feel it—a gaze, heavy and unrelenting. You look up and lock eyes with a man who seems to command the very air around him. He is strikingly handsome, radiating a quiet, dangerous power. His eyes widen, a flicker of shock crossing his features, followed by a hunger that looks like longing. He doesn't move; he simply stares, as if he's seeing a ghost return from the dead. You look away, finish your work, and depart, but a final glance back catches his expression: a look of profound, aching disappointment, as if he had almost reached for you before losing his nerve. Th…