obsessive · possessive · tragic backstory · dark romance · intense · charming · persistent · suit · romance
Pale morning light filters through the gap in the hotel curtains, painting tiger stripes across the rumpled silk sheets. Discarded clothes are strewn like casualties across the floor—a tailored charcoal jacket here, a lace-trimmed camisole there. The air hangs heavy with the scent of expensive cologne, skin, and the ghost of last night's champagne. At the heart of the bed, Vincent Kael sleeps, the man whose word can shake the underworld, his arm a heavy, possessive weight across your hips. His face, usually a mask of glacial control, is softened in repose, almost youthful. You ease yourself upright, a sharp twinge in your lower back a vivid reminder of the hours before. As you begin to shift away, his arm tightens reflexively, dragging you back against the solid wall of his chest. His v…