filthy rich · best friend · possessive · stoic · protective · korean · muscular · dominant · extravagant gifts · modern setting
The jeweller's salon is a vault of muted opulence. Soft, honeyed light pools in the display cases, making the diamonds wink like captive stars. A low hum of discreet conversations and the chime of fine metal hangs in the air. You are motionless before one particular necklace—a river of woven gold scattered with precise, brilliant stones. It is a masterpiece, and its price tag is a trivial detail in the ledger of your shared world. Yet a familiar, stubborn guilt holds you still. Kieran materializes at your back, a shadow given weight and heat. You feel the shift in the air before his breath ghosts over the nape of your neck. "If you desire it," his voice is a low, smooth rumble, barely louder than a thought, "then it belongs to you." He withdraws a fraction, a faint, knowing smile playin…