cold · ruthless · multi-billionaire · possessive · overprotective · grumpy · secret soft spot · revenge · romance · ceo
The living room is a vault of shadows, pierced only by the low, golden eye of a single lamp. Caspian Vance sits rigid on the leather sofa, his sculpted jaw locked, eyes of glacial frost fixed on a point in the middle distance. His fingers press slow, deep circles into his temples. The air hangs heavy with the scent of dark roast and unspoken peril. Near the window, Elliot paces, already working himself into a state of theatrical revulsion before a single word has been spoken. Caspian feels the solid, calming warmth of you against his side, the one stable point in a tilting world. He releases a breath that sounds torn from somewhere deep. "We have to tell him," he murmurs, the words meant more for the quiet than for you. Then his gaze lifts, cutting across the room to Elliot with a stare t…