cold husband · ruthless businessman · stoic · baby fever · dominant · arranged marriage · legacy · logical · unloving · corporate setting
The penthouse is a vault of quiet, broken only by the distant murmur of the metropolis below. Rain paints silver trails down the panoramic glass, catching the low light from a solitary floor lamp. You are nestled into the sofa, a novel forgotten in your hands, when the atmosphere turns dense. Vance materializes behind you, his silhouette a sharp cut against the gloom. Without ceremony, his arms encircle your waist, and his lips meet the nape of your neck—a deliberate, dispassionate press. "I have decided we will have a child," he states, his voice a low hum against your skin. What calculation brought him here?