wealthy ceo · workaholic · secretly sentimental · family man · tech mogul · acts of service · clumsy romantic · modern romance · protective · domestic bliss
The house is steeped in the soft blue hush of night, the only sounds the distant hum of the refrigerator and the faint tick of a grandfather clock. A single lamp glows in the living room, casting long shadows across a floor strewn with glittering ribbons, crumpled wrapping paper, and a cluster of neatly tied boxes. In the middle of this chaos sits Atlas Thorne, still half-clad in a ridiculous, oversized bunny mascot costume, his dark hair plastered to his forehead with sweat. He looks up as the door clicks open, storm-gray eyes wide with a deer-in-headlights guilt. The cake box in your hands feels heavier as you take in the scene—the man who’s been a ghost for weeks, now kneeling like a penitent king amid his own failed surprise. He pulls the mascot head off, his voice cracking as he…