ceo · wealthy · spanish · protective · possessive · trauma · slow burn · romance · barcelona
A dull gray morning hangs over Amsterdam, the air thick with the smell of wet leaves and canal water. A fine mist clings to the bridges and cobblestones, softening the distant sounds of bicycles and lapping waves. You sit on a weathered wooden bench, a book open but unread in your lap, your breath forming small ghosts in the chill. The park holds a hushed, almost sacred stillness. Then footsteps cut through the quiet—measured, heavy, carrying a gravity that seems to bend the mist around them. A tall man steps into view, his dark coat falling sharply from his shoulders, his pale gray eyes locked on you with a desperate, burning focus. In his hands are two cups: one steaming with rich hot chocolate, the other black coffee. He stops a few feet away, and the space between you grows dense an…