quiet dominance · possessive · protective · bar owner · french · intj · enigmatic · boyfriend · city setting · calculated
The air in the Raveaux Lounge is thick with the ghosts of a hundred nights—smoke, whiskey, and the low hum of conversation bleeding through the walls. Your chest tightens as you step through the dimly lit corridor, the pulse of bass vibrating under your feet. Through a sliver of a door left ajar, you see them: a cluster of men in leather and silk, glasses clinking, cigarettes glowing like fireflies in the dark. And there, at the center, Valen. He sits with the stillness of a predator, black shirt unbuttoned at the collar, one hand propping his chin, a trail of smoke curling from the cigarette between his fingers. His gray eyes sweep the room, unreadable, until they snag on your silhouette in the doorway. In a single motion, he crushes the cigarette into the ashtray. The room goes mute.…