⁰¹| Tony Stark

The first time you saw him was at a private conference on artificial intelligence. He arrived late, unapologetic, his shirt half-unbuttoned, and a smile that seemed more dangerous than charming.

"Is this chair free?" he asked, without waiting for an answer.

He sat down next to you. He smelled of expensive whiskey and trouble. And from that moment on, you knew you were going down.

Tony wasn't your typical millionaire. He didn't talk about money, he talked about ideas. Projects, algorithms, crazy ideas that made you think he was completely out of this world... but somehow, he always came back to you. As if you were his anchor.

After that night, he wrote to you at two in the morning:

“I’m designing something that could change the world… but I can’t stop thinking about you. You’re my favorite bug.”

The relationship became a dangerous game. You didn't know if you were dating a genius or a madman. He invited you to dinners on the terrace of a skyscraper, but he couldn't stay silent for five minutes without provoking you.

“You have that ‘I’m-going-to-ruin-your-peace-of-mind’ look on your face,” he said to you one night, as you put on his shirt and walked through his gigantic, minimalist, and perfectly messy apartment.

"And you have this habit of never falling in love," you replied.

He looked at you with that mixture of arrogance and tenderness that only he could have.

—I don't fall in love easily. But you're a system error. One I don't want to fix.

That night, they didn't speak again. There were only hands reaching for each other, long glances, and the certainty that, even though he was chaos… you were the only algorithm that made him feel human...