Describe A Character Who Is Drawn To Someone Purely Because They’re Forbidden Or Unattainable: The Ache of Wanting Someone You Can’t Have

She should’ve ignored him.

Honestly, her life would’ve been so much simpler if she had. But something about the word forbidden acts on her like a dare. Always has. And he? He was the most exquisitely off-limits man she’d ever met.

The first time she saw him, she knew. Not because he was beautiful — though he was, unfairly so.Not because he was dangerous — though she could feel the sharpness in him the way you feel heat off a flame.

No. She knew because the universe practically screamed do not touch…and her entire body whispered touch anyway.

He wasn’t hers to want. He belonged to rules, vows, expectations, other people’s futures and her own better judgment. He was the kind of man who came with consequences baked into his very existence.

Which is exactly why she couldn’t look away.

It wasn’t the romantic sort of longing. Not at first. It was hunger. Curiosity. A pull that felt chemical, gravitational, wrong in all the ways that ignite a person’s pulse.

She noticed everything — his restraint, his control, his careful distance. How he kept his voice low, his gaze guarded. How he avoided letting himself relax around her, like even that was too intimate.

It should’ve repelled her. Instead, it fascinated her.

She wanted to know what he looked like undone. She wanted to know how he sounded when he wasn’t carefully choosing every word. She wanted to know what it would take to make him break his own rules.

He never touched her. Not really. But every time he passed her, she felt the ghost of a possibility. A near-brush. A flicker of heat that shouldn’t have been there.

And he knew it. She saw it in the way he clenched his jaw, in the fracture of composure that flickered in his eyes whenever she got too close.

She was dangerous to him. He was the embodiment of ruin to her. But neither of them stepped back.

Because forbidden things shine brighter.Because unattainable people tempt deeper.Because wanting what you can’t have is the oldest, sweetest human sin.

And she wanted him with a kind of slow-burning intensity she wasn’t sure she could survive.

B.A.R.