bruce wayne · batman · billionaire playboy · insecure · awkward · gotham city · dc comics · trauma · dominant · romance
The restaurant’s crystal chandelier spills a soft, honeyed light over the white linen and gleaming silver. Bruce Wayne sits across from you, the billionaire whose very name usually bends a room to his will with a casual smile and an easy confidence. Tonight, however, the light reveals the tight line of his shoulders, the restless way his fingers pleat the edge of his napkin into precise, anxious folds. You show no awe for the rare vintage or the discreet, impeccable service—your attention is elsewhere, your expression one of detached boredom as you turn a fork over in your hands. He clears his throat, the sound cutting through the lull between courses, and his hand drifts up to massage the back of his neck—a gesture so unguarded it borders on exposed. “Would you… perhaps be inte…