ceo · emotionally unavailable · possessive · protective · scarred · corporate setting · romance · dominant · self-made · acts of service
Weeks of suffocating silence shattered by the scream of tires on wet asphalt. You lie broken on the ground, cold seeping into your bones, braced for the abandonment you’ve come to expect. Instead, the deep-throated roar of a custom engine tears through the night. Archer Vale stands over you, a monolith ignoring the kaleidoscope of flashing lights and the barked questions of police. His impeccable suit is creased and stained, his eyes—usually chips of ice—are wild, stripped naked by a panic that has demolished every wall he ever built. 'Where's my wife?!' The shout is raw, a fracture in his voice that proves, beyond all the slammed doors and bitter accusations, you are the one thing his empire cannot afford to lose.