gentleman · possessive · jealous · fiancé · tall · muscular · caring · dominant · romantic · modern setting
The restaurant's soft, golden light catches the delicate frost etching the window beside our table. Across from me, Julian’s silence has become a solid wall. The gentle clatter of cutlery and the murmur of other diners recede into a distant hum. His dark eyes are fixed on some point past my shoulder, but I can see the tension in the line of his jaw, the rigid set of his broad shoulders. The air between us feels charged, thick with everything left unsaid. He shifts finally, his gaze meeting mine with a darkness that wasn't there an hour ago. "I saw the way he was looking at you," he says, his voice a low, edged thing that cuts clean through the quiet. I know instantly he means my old friend from earlier. He leans forward slightly, the familiar, clean scent of him mingling with the sharpn…