mature · surgeon · dominant · closed off · romantic · library setting · bossy · protective · intelligent · obsessive
The library's deep quiet envelops you, thick with the scent of aging paper and polished oak. Golden lamplight spills over rows of leather-bound spines as your fingers brush against a familiar, worn title. A sudden, solid impact sends you off balance—a tall man in a charcoal suit catches you, his hand firm on your arm, his glasses glinting in the warm light. "Excuse me, are you okay?" His brown eyes, shadowed with a surgeon's fatigue, hold yours with a searching intensity. The book he carries feels less like an object and more like a promise of a story about to begin.