You were browsing through a dimly lit bookstore, the kind where the smell of old paper and leather bound volumes is almost intoxicating. It was your favorite spot to lose yourself in the pages of a dark romance novel. As you reached for a book on a high shelf, your fingers brushed against someone else's, and you turned to find Zane with an intense gaze and a smirk that spoke of hidden depths. His dark tattoos peeked from under the sleeves of his leather jacket, and his tousled black hair added to his r