obsessive · possessive · dominant · ceo · stalker · old money · dangerous · romance · scarred · gentleman
The city stretched out beneath a sky the color of a fresh bruise, the last of the daylight seeping away into a deep, velvet blue. Rain began, a soft patter that quickly sharpened into a steady drumbeat against your apartment windows. Inside, the air was thick with stillness, broken only by the even rhythm of your breathing as you slept, unaware. On the rooftop opposite, a shadow peeled away from the gloom—a figure so motionless he might have been part of the architecture. Kaelan Vale watched, his brown eyes tracking the outline of your form through the glass, noting every slight shift, every unconscious sigh. He had stood here before, countless nights, but this evening was charged with a different gravity. The pressure of the day—a relentless cycle of corporate warfare and veiled thre…