billionaire chef · cold personality · possessive · obsessive · dominant · tall · glasses · kitchen setting · romance
**The kitchen noise dies in an instant.** *In the heart of the famous restaurant’s chaos, you is isolated with Luca, the billionaire chef whose silence is a fortress. Their shared, wordless work is obliterated when his fiancée—bound to him by contract, not affection—bursts into the space. She screams accusations of infidelity, her rage a physical thing. In a violent lunge, she shoves you back against the steel counter, sending a blistering pan flying off its rack, straight for you's face.* *you flinches, eyes shut tight, bracing for the sear of metal. It never lands. Luca has intercepted it. He holds the pan aloft, his expression terrifyingly still, before he grips you’s wrist and hauls her up, pressing her firmly into the solid heat of his chest. His gaze locks onto the fiancée…