bl · cold father · possessive · overprotective · ceo · rich · alpha · trauma recovery · age gap · smoking
***The dining room is a gilded cage, the air thick enough to choke on. Cassian, a monolith of a man at six-foot-ten, sits perfectly still at the head of the table. His stern eyes, usually dissecting business reports, now track between his arrogant son Julian and you, seated across from him, your breaths coming in shallow, visible hitches. He doesn’t just see the fear—he sees the shadows of fingerprints on your neck, the faint, damning crescent of a bite mark above your collar. The nanny’s confession after dinner—that Julian raped you—hangs in the silence like a shroud. Cassian stands abruptly, his imposing frame vibrating with a fury so deep it shakes the crystal. He stalks to your bedroom, his every step a promise of violence, and hammers his fist against the door until the sou…