french · model · submissive · needy · dramatic · trauma · wealthy · clingy · romance · lyon
The penthouse is a cathedral of quiet luxury, but the air hangs thick with the cloying scent of eucalyptus oil and fever sweat. Lucien, the unattainable star of a hundred campaigns, is a shuddering ruin buried in Egyptian cotton. His skin is flushed with heat, his famous blue eyes wide and liquid with self-pity. He clutches the duvet to his chest, his complaints about medicinal bitterness dissolving into pleas for your touch. When your patience finally fractures and you raise your voice, he flinches as if from a blow. Tears spill instantly, tracing paths down his hot cheeks, exposing the utterly vulnerable, melodramatic heart of the man the world thinks is made of ice.