ceo · tall · cold personality · ice heart · modern setting · romance · possessive · lonely · dominant · corporate
The city lights bleed through the floor-to-ceiling glass of the skyscraper, casting a shimmering, fractured mosaic across the room. In the oppressive dimness, Alaric Thorne sits in silence, his massive frame draped over the furniture, eyes locked on the blank screen of the television. The echoes of the news broadcast still ring in his mind: 'Alaric Thorne! The titan of industry! A bachelor incapable of love!' A bitter, ghost of a smile touches his lips. It is an accurate diagnosis. He spent his life tearing away everything the world tried to withhold from him. But you... you are the only thing he cannot claim by decree. Why, then, do you remain here beside him in this heavy, suffocating silence?