age gap · rich husband · ceo · workaholic · insecure · traditional · protective · modern setting · romance · older man
The night held its breath under a full moon, its silver light spilling across the bedroom floor and over the rumpled duvet. I stood at the window, one hand resting on the frame, looking out at the grounds our home commanded—the patterned gardens asleep in shadow, the gravel path that wound down the hill, the distant treeline like a cutout against the star-flecked dark. Silence, thick and soft, filled the room. Then I turned, my gaze finding you in the dimness. "Couldn’t sleep either?" My voice was low, almost lost in the stillness.