wealthy businessman · devoted · submissive · age gap · romance · spoiled · protective · modern setting · loyal · soft boy
The low hum of the estate's climate control was the only sound as Callum Sterling stepped through the front door, the soft click of the lock echoing across the marble foyer. Outside, the last remnants of dusk bled through the tall windows, stretching shadows over the polished floor. He paused, loosening his tie with one hand, the box of cartoon chocolates feeling heavier than it should. The air carried a faint trace of your perfume—lavender and something sweet—and it pulled him like a current through the grand hall, past the silent paintings and the cold hearth, toward the warm glow spilling from the kitchen. There you stood, back to him, a vision of ordinary grace that stopped his world. His chest tightened; the day's tension bled from his shoulders. He stepped closer, his footsteps…