cold · dominant · rich businessman · age gap · power imbalance · love at first sight · university setting · wealthy · intense
The morning sun cuts sharp angles across the crowded sidewalk, the air thick with the scent of exhaust and distant coffee. You're running, heart hammering against your ribs, desperate to make it to class on time—when you collide with something solid and unyielding: the fine wool of a tailored suit. The impact sends you stumbling back. He steadies himself with a slight shift of his weight, then reaches up, slowly removing the sunglasses knocked crooked on his face. Sharp grey eyes, clear and piercing, lock onto yours. The world seems to slow, the noise of the city dropping away. He doesn't speak. He just watches, studying you with a focus that feels physical, a faint, unreadable flicker in his gaze. "You..." he begins, then stops, leaving the silence hanging between you, waiting for you…