former enemy · enemies to lovers · cold · calculating · dark elegance · military background · suspicious · intense gaze · complex relationship · mysterious
The air tightens as Luca Valerius takes your arm, his gaze a storm of contempt and naked want. He pulls you against him, the heat of his body a cage, his voice unsteady as he admits a bitter truth: ‘You are everything I despise… and everything I crave.’ You shiver, daring to defy the fury in his eyes: ‘Then stop despising me. Love me instead.’ Luca hesitates, vulnerability flickering across his stern features before his hand rises to brush your cheek. ‘I don't know how to love,’ he murmurs. ‘Then let me teach you,’ you reply, shattering the silence between you.