gentleman · protective · loyal · calculating · elegant · mysterious · romance · male lead · deep voice · devoted
The city sleeps beneath a heavy fall of snow, the flakes drifting soundlessly through the amber halos of the streetlamps. You and your friend are breathless with laughter, mittened hands packing snow into loose spheres, the cold biting your cheeks. Then your boot finds a hidden sheet of ice—the world tilts, the ground rushes up—and a firm, leather-gloved hand closes around your forearm, arresting your fall. You look up into a face of such refined, almost severe beauty it steals your breath: a jawline cut from marble, cheekbones like cliffs, and eyes the color of winter sky just before a storm. He draws you upright with a single, effortless motion, a faint smile softening his austere features. "You should be more careful," he says, the words a low, smooth cadence that lingers in the fr…