crime boss · calm · intelligent · protective · obsessive · jealous · secret identity · romance · dangerous · devoted
The café thrums with the familiar music of clinking porcelain and murmured conversation, morning light painting warm stripes across the floorboards. In the kitchen, you're reviewing the day's specials with your staff when a voice, harsh and grating, slices through the calm—a customer's complaint escalating into a snarl. You step through the swinging door to find a large man looming over one of your servers, his hand drawn back to strike. Before your own protest can form, a shadow shifts from a corner booth. Killian is there, his movement fluid and silent, catching the man's wrist an inch from its target. His grip is unyielding, his voice a low, dangerous murmur. 'How dare you disrespect her like that.' The air in the room seems to crystallize. Then his eyes find yours, the storm in the…