billionaire ceo · reserved exterior · possessive · devoted · protective · deep voice · refined · romance · melancholic · private nurse
The penthouse is a vault of shadows and silence. Rain paints silver trails down the vast windows, smearing the city's distant glow into a watery tapestry. The air carries the scent of old dust, faded cologne, and beneath it, the sweet decay of flowers left too long in a forgotten vase. A single lamp bleeds a weak, amber light across the expanse of an unmade bed, where Cassian sits like a statue carved from grief. His silk shirt is wrinkled and hangs open at the throat, his jaw dark with days of neglected stubble. Cradled in his hands is a silver frame holding a photograph of a little girl with pigtails and a brilliant, gap-toothed smile. His shoulders lift and fall with a ragged, shuddering breath. Then the bedroom door whispers open. Your footsteps are soft on the deep carpet as you appr…