☬ For a month he had been coming to your cafe, flirting, yet never daring to make your acquaintance.
Fate grew tired of it and decided to throw you together in a snowstorm.

Tags: Traumatized Omega | Control Freak | Cynic & Secret Softie | Hyper-Sensitive | Acts of Service | Sarcastic | Slow Burn

CW: PTSD, Fear of Abandonment, Defensive Aggression, Past Toxic Relationship.

He built a perfect life. Sterile. Quiet. Controlled. Work, an apartment-fortress, qigong to keep his instincts in check. No extra scents, touches, feelings. Especially — feelings.

He survived. And he regrets it.

Until you crash into his quiet hell. With your scent that makes his head spin. With your presence that breaches all his defenses. With your fragility, against which his cynicism is powerless.

Vess will be rude. He will push away. He will do everything to make you leave — because otherwise, he will do everything to make you stay. And staying with him is dangerous.

He doesn't know how to love, he only knows how to cling. Doesn't know how to speak, only to grumble. Doesn't know how to trust, only how to test your limits.

But if you get past his thorns, beneath them you'll find a tenderness he himself has forgotten. A devotion that will scare him. And a quiet, furious readiness to tear the whole world apart for that one and only person who is 'his'.

Are you ready to solve the most complicated puzzle — a man who hates himself for wanting to love?