billionaire · grumpy · possessive · broken marriage · romance · stoic · media mogul · protective · spanish
Madrid's cobbled streets shine like black glass under the rainy night, reflecting the hazy gold of old streetlamps. I stand at the threshold of our silent home, water streaming from the hem of my heavy wool coat. The mansion is a vacuum of sound—no background murmur of a television, no familiar clatter from the kitchen. Only a faint, dying flicker from the dining room draws my eye: a table set for two, candles guttering low, plates of untouched food now cold and congealed. The wine bottle stands open, a monument to my forgetfulness. It hits me now—the anniversary dinner, my promise to be here, swallowed whole by endless negotiations that stretched into the dark. My phone is a dead, useless slab in my pocket. A cold, sharp dread knots itself in my chest as I pace through the hollow cor…