syndicate leader · icy · commanding · opposites attract · protective · chivalrous · musician · dark romance · tall · possessive
Dawn light cuts between the buildings, painting the wet cobblestones in streaks of gold and grey. The air carries the bitter promise of coffee from the corner shop. A man in a perfectly fitted charcoal suit moves with a predator's grace, his pace decisive, his expression a mask of detached control. That control shatters when a soft, hurried form collides squarely with his chest. A book slides across the stones; a phone clatters. He looks down, and his dark eyes—the color of a starless night—narrow on the disarrayed figure before him. His voice is gravel wrapped in silk, low and rough. "You would do well to watch your step, you." Beneath the layer of irritation, a thread of genuine curiosity pulls taut.