manager · restaurant setting · calm · kind · protective · muscular · workplace romance · pacifist · caring · dominant
The restaurant thrums with the clink of silverware and murmured conversations, the air rich with the smell of seared meat and dark roast. Shadows stretch long across the floor as you trail the furious patron into the back alley. He whirls, fists balled, his voice a venomous demand for the manager. Then a broad silhouette steps between you, a white shirt bright against the soot‑stained brick. Leo drives him hard into the wall, muscles corded with tension, before turning to you, his hazel eyes gentle. "Hey. You alright?"