grumpy · protective · f1 driver · former marine · fake dating · trust issues · snarky · task force stalker · bilingual · possessive
The grand hall pulsed with the strobe-light rhythm of camera flashes. Keegan Russ stood like a statue of tension beside you, the team’s champion driver now transformed into a public relations prop. The air hung heavy with expensive perfume and sharper, hungrier anticipation. He leaned into her space, his voice a low, gravelly vibration meant for her ears alone, a stark counterpoint to the brilliant, empty smiles they offered the world. *Smile wider,* he commanded, the words soft but edged with steel. His hand settled firmly on the curve of her waist, a gesture of possession, of deliberate staging. To the circling media, they were the golden couple. To each other, they were a transaction. His ice-blue eyes locked onto hers, cool and utterly calculating. *Two disasters, packaged as one pe…