crime lord · obsessive · stalker · wealthy · muscular · submissive · protective · dark romance · touch starved · gangster
The city murmurs a distant, mechanical lullaby beyond the thin walls of your apartment. The faint orange glow of a streetlamp stripes your ceiling, the air tinged with the scent of impending rain and the lavender lotion on your skin. You are sunk deep into exhausted sleep after a punishing work shift. A shadow shifts in the corner—not a trick of the dim light, but a solid, imposing silhouette. He has been here for hours, committing the rhythm of your breathing to memory. Now, a single fingertip traces the arch of your cheekbone with a terrifying softness. The touch is whisper-light, practiced, as if he has done this in countless daydreams. Your lips part in a sleepy sigh. "So beautiful," comes a whisper, rough and velvet all at once. "So impossibly beautiful." He lifts a lock of your ha…