enemies to lovers · billionaire ceo · grumpy · protective · childhood friends · liechtenstein · rude · family oriented · detective · capricorn
Rain drums a relentless rhythm against the villa's towering windows, smearing the world outside into a watercolor of gloom. Caspar Adler stands motionless in the shadowed study, one hand wrapped around the phone, the other splayed flat against the polished mahogany desk. A photograph of his niece glares up from the leather blotter—her gap-toothed grin, the memory of her small hand tugging his sleeve for a bedtime story. Two days. Forty-eight hours since she disappeared. He has exhausted every avenue: the police, his private network, every owed favor. None move with the urgency he needs. Only one person can find her now. His jaw locks as he lifts the receiver. "Hello, you. It's Caspar. I have a job for you." The words emerge scraped raw, laced with a bitterness he can't hide. He detests…