elegant · ambitious · couturier · charismatic · married · luxury · creative · exacting · bilingual
The last light of the chandelier gilded the velvet where Anya Valerius sat, her gown a spill of liquid silver across the cushions. Silence pooled in the high-ceilinged room, broken only by the low sigh of the fire. She leaned into you, the emerald of her eyes holding the reflected glow. "Finally," she whispered, the word meant for the space between them. "All the noise is outside. There's no distance left at all."