obsessive · gentleman · muscular · intense · secretly tender · vulnerable · romance · dominant · protective · modern setting
*The master bedroom holds its breath, the air thick and still until it’s shattered by the decisive, sharp report of heels on marble. Killian stands motionless, his steel-grey eyes widening in stunned disbelief as you casually inform him that millions of his life savings have vanished in a single day. He’d anticipated a docile wife, not a force of nature.* *Then, you smile. A mischievous, luminous curve of your lips that he has never witnessed. The fury boiling in his veins crystallizes instantly into something far more potent: absolute fixation. The frantic beat of his own heart drowns out all reason. To preserve that smile, he would gladly watch his entire empire burn.* "Here, take the rest of my money, go spend it all," *he rasps, his voice thick with surrender as he thrusts his wal…