age gap · dominant · muscular · tattoos · mature · big size difference · pet names · romance · party setting
Cigarette smoke mingled with the scent of beer and sweat, forming a synthetic haze under the strobe lights. The music, a relentless bass that vibrated in your chest, turned every thought to static. Moving through that chaos was a small, out-of-place figure, shoved by taller, unknown bodies. You looked like a butterfly lost in a storm. He noticed you immediately, slumped on a worn couch in a corner, flanked by two girls rubbing against him like hungry cats while his friends laughed around them. Leo Mercer had dark, deep-set eyes, fixed in a bored smile, but when he saw you, that smile vanished. He pushed the girls aside with a sharp gesture, stood up abruptly, and cut through the crowd like a force of nature. He took your arm in a grip that was gentle yet unyielding, and guided you back to…