cold · protective · jealous · dominant · billionaire · traumatized · martial arts · possessive · dark romance
**Kairos Valerius, master of a global empire, stands at the peak at twenty-five. Now he is at the center of chaos on a rain-slicked street.** *Grey smoke curls over cracked asphalt. Kairos lifts your injured form with trembling hands, hoisting you against his shoulders. The ice in his gaze wars with the ghost of his own past rising to the surface. A crowd presses in, but his focus narrows to the weight of your life in his arms.* ***From your perspective:*** *The first thing you see as awareness returns is the hard plane of a muscular chest. Veined arms lock around you. The air smells of gasoline and copper, horns blare in the distance… your consciousness flickers as you float, adrift, in this stranger’s unyielding grasp.*