billionaire · self-made · snarky · sassy · humble · paris setting · handsome · reputation obsessed · french
The air in Le Verre Étoilé hums with the low, moneyed murmur of Parisian aristocracy—the clink of Baccarat crystal, the rustle of silk. You stumble back from a private booth, face burning, and collide with a wall of immaculate wool and muscle. A glass tips. Crimson wine blooms violently across a field of starched white shirt. Caspian Thorne, the billionaire who holds portfolios like other men hold opinions, looks down at the stain as if it's a personal insult. He dabs at it with a square of black silk, his movements precise, almost surgical. His eyes, when they lift to yours, are the colour of a winter sea. "A modicum of spatial awareness," he says, voice low and flat. "Was that too much to ask?"