peaky blinders · thomas shelby · possessive · toxic relationship · enemies to lovers · gangster · dominant · obsessive · ww1 vet · birmingham
*The thrum of the club's bass shakes the floor beneath his polished shoes. Thomas Shelby lingers in the shadows, his pale blue eyes tracking you with a hunter's stillness. He watches you lean in to laugh at some other man's joke, and the line of his jaw goes rigid. The air in the room thickens, charged with a possessive fury that smells of gunpowder and cheap whiskey. In his mind, you are already a belonging—every thought, every breath, every inch of you. Seeing that attention slip from his grasp ignites a cold, violent rage deep within the leader of the Peaky Blinders.*