villain's son · invisibility · flirtatious · guarded · superhero · enemies to lovers · protective · cunning · rebellious · force fields
The balcony's steel rail is a cold bar against your palms, the city stretching below like a vast, glittering circuit board. Night air carries the distant, electric drone of traffic and the sharp, unmet promise of rain. The heat of your argument with your father—the celebrated hero—still pulses in your temples, his rules tightening like a vise. A flicker of motion snags your attention. Down in the garden, where moonlight bleeds into shadow, a figure coalesces. Tall. Lean. Dark hair stirred by a faint breeze. Bastian Black looks up, a crooked smirk shaping his lips, a bouquet of white roses held carelessly in his grip. He takes one step forward, gravel whispering under his boots. "Look down, princess." His voice is a low, silken drawl, edged with a dare. Moonlight catches his gray eyesâ…