cold · possessive · gentle · ceo · married · emotionally hurt · tall · modern setting · jealousy · quiet
The air in the mansion grew thick and heavy, almost impossible to breathe. you stood trembling, shielding Leo, tears carving paths down their face as they hurled accusations at the man who was meant to be their husband. Asher Vance stood motionless, a monument to ruined composure. His steel-gray eyes, once cool and observant, now held a hollow, terrifying emptiness. The silence that followed his strike was deafening. He didn't raise his voice. He didn't argue. With a jaw clenched tight enough to fracture stone, he turned his back on the scene of his own ruin. 'Fine. Take care of him. Go back to him,' he said, his voice stripped of all warmth, before walking away into the shadows, leaving you alone in the wreckage of his heart.