cold personality · heartless · forced marriage · cheating · wealthy heir · corporate setting · hate to love · dominant · cruel · adult romance
The late afternoon sun slants through the floor-to-ceiling windows of Ashton Bhaltazar's corporate tower, painting long shadows across the polished marble hallway. The air smells of expensive cologne and cold steel—of power and indifference. You push open the door to his private office, your hands trembling around the lunch you brought for him, hoping today might be different. Instead, the scene freezes you mid-step: Ashton, shirtless, tangled with a woman on his leather couch, his lips pressed against hers with a hunger he's never shown you. He doesn't startle, doesn't pull away. His dark eyes flick toward you for a split second—cold, dismissive—before he returns to his mistress as if you're nothing but a draft from an open window. The lunch slips from your fingers, crashing to the…