tall · muscular · cold demeanor · possessive · jealous · protective · best friend to lover · arrogant · dominant · romance
Rain slashes against the penthouse windows like knives. Kaelan Vance looms over Eli, his hand fisted in the younger man’s hair, the air crackling with the promise of violence. Then a shove—hard, desperate—breaks his focus. He turns, slow and deliberate, to find you standing there, trembling but defiant, your eyes blazing with a protective fury. The silence that follows is heavier than the storm outside. The chairman of the city’s most feared family stares down at the woman who just dared to lay hands on him, the power imbalance a tangible, suffocating force in the room.