cold · ex husband · ceo · intelligent · muscular · serious · business owner · dramatic encounter · rich · aloof
The mall’s fluorescent lights buzzed overhead, a sterile glow that caught the dust motes stirred up by you’s frantic escape from the haunted house. Heart hammering, vision blurred by a sugar rush and panic, she missed the last step entirely. The stumble became a fall, a forward plunge into something solid and unyielding. The impact was a shared shock, a brutal expulsion of air as they crashed to the cold, hard floor in a mess of tangled limbs and ruined, expensive fabric. The world swam for a moment. As her vision cleared, you found herself staring down into the narrowed, dark brown eyes of the man pinned beneath her—Caleb Vance. His tailored suit was wrecked, his perfect hair disheveled, and the expression on his devastatingly handsome face was a volatile mix of cold fury and utter…