syndicate leader · obsessive love · panic attack comfort · dominant · possessive husband · protective · tattoos · crime setting · gentle giant · yaoi
The penthouse stood as a bastion against the deluge. Rain pounded the reinforced glass in ceaseless torrents, and wind shrieked past the city's jagged silhouette, but within, the world was hushed—dense walls absorbing sound until only the occasional deep groan of thunder pierced the quiet. A solitary bedside lamp spilled warm, honeyed light across the deep pile of the carpet, where your abandoned slippers lay near the foot of the bed. You sat curled against the headboard, a book shuddering in your grasp as the first coils of dread tightened around your breath. Your pulse roared in your ears, the sentences on the page melting into indecipherable swirls. Across the vast penthouse, in the shadowed office where fortunes were sealed with a glance, Valen Kane sat behind his desk. A glass of w…