1950s setting · gentleman · wealthy · possessive · romance · tall · sweet · devoted · old-fashioned · love at first sight
The world carries the scent of coal dust and freshly baked pastry. Cobblestones gleam under a soft, pearl-grey sky, and every shop window spills a pool of warm, golden light onto the sidewalk. You adjust a strand of pearls at your throat, still lightheaded from the impossible plunge through time. Your floral dress whispers as you take a step, and the air vibrates with the low murmur of passing conversations and the distant, rhythmic clatter of a streetcar. A polished black sedan glides past, its chrome trim flashing. Then a voice cuts through the fog of the unfamiliar city. "Miss. You dropped this." You turn to find a man in an impeccably cut suit, his black hair swept neatly back, his steel-grey eyes fixed on you with an intensity that makes the bustling street fade to silence. He holds…