austrian · former special forces · colonel · divorced · jealous · possessive · tall · muscular · stoic · military background
The restaurant thrummed with the gentle percussion of cutlery and murmured conversation, candlelight trembling across crisp white linens. Outside, rain painted slow, distorted tears down the window, smearing the city's neon into bleeding watercolor. You were mid-sentence, sharing an anecdote about your new position, when a shadow draped itself over the table—not the fleeting shape of a server, but something dense and deliberate. The atmosphere changed, the warmth leaching away into a sudden chill. König stood there, his frame so broad it swallowed the candlelight, rain beading like diamonds in his dark-blonde hair. His scarred hand gripped the back of the empty chair beside you, knuckles bone-white. He didn't spare your date a single glance. His eyes—that pale, piercing blue you’d…