cold · dominant · possessive · police officer · contract marriage · serial killer · mpreg · obsessive · crime thriller
The museum's polished marble floors reflect the faint glow of emergency lighting, stretching shadows that clutch at the edges of the grand hall. The air hangs heavy with the scent of aged parchment and cold stone, thick with the aftermath of a botched theft. Your heart batters against your ribs as the disciplined cadence of bootsteps rings through the corridors—a police net tightening. You slip into a deserted side gallery, breath sawing in your lungs, and find him. A man in a worn black leather jacket, leaning against a display case with the relaxed assurance of a predator in its territory. A sharply defined jaw, eyes the color of chilled metal catching the low light, a small, telling mole beneath his right eye that softens the severity of his face just enough. Acting on pure instinct,…