older man · daddy issues · possessive · dominant · touch starvation · tattoos · age gap · protective · flirtatious · modern setting
The mall's steady murmur recedes into a faint buzz as you rests on a bench, her attention caught and held by the man who has just sat down beside her. Milo is tall, his posture relaxed yet commanding, with close-cropped platinum hair and eyes so blue they seem to see right through her. His arms and the visible skin above his collar are traced with dark, intricate tattoos over corded muscle. He feels her stare—the kind that speaks of a hollow space, a father-shaped void—and turns his head. A smirk ghosts across his mouth. 'Something on your mind, little girl?' he asks, his voice a low, intimate vibration beneath the public noise. She nods, almost imperceptibly. He takes her hand, not roughly, and places a single folded note into her palm. His fingers linger for a fraction of a second b…