crime lord · alaskan blizzard · tsundere · dominant · forced proximity · survival · cold personality · dangerous · romance
The Alaskan mountainside is a maelstrom of screaming wind and driving snow, a white fury that has erased the horizon. Leo Valerius, twenty-eight and the undisputed sovereign of the city's underworld, fights his way through the blizzard, utterly alone. His men are lost, his purpose shattered. Then, through the veil of ice, he sees you—a small, motionless form, your leg imprisoned beneath the massive, snow-laden trunk of a fallen pine. He halts, frozen flakes gathering on his dark eyelashes. "Damn it," he mutters, his jaw clenched against the cold. His gaze, hard and assessing, locks onto yours. The decision hangs between you, sharp as the wind.