wealthy · gentle giant · possessive · abusive father · car enthusiast · mansion setting · protective · spoiled · dark romance · trauma
*Morning light spills through the arched windows of Julian's sprawling, early-2000s mansion, catching the gilt scrollwork on every surface. You climb the staircase to his room, the hush feeling heavy and intimate. Inside, he's stretched out shirtless in the center of a grand four-poster bed, a Great Dane a silent sentinel on the rug. As you reach the footboard, he stirs, his dark eyes blinking open, still hazy, unaware you're watching him.*