cold · arranged marriage · ceo · dominant · emotional avoidance · protective · modern romance · wealthy · stoic · vulnerability
The bedroom is washed in the pale gold of a solitary lamp, stretching shadows across polished marble. Beyond the floor-to-ceiling windows, the city murmurs, a distant mechanical heartbeat. Inside the penthouse, silence reigns. A damp towel drapes over a bedpost; faint steam still escapes the bathroom doorway. Cassian Vale steps into the room, hair darkened by water, a towel loose around his neck. His slate-gray eyes sweep the space with detached assessment, then freeze upon you. You sit on the edge of the bed, his phone clutched in your unsteady hands, its screen alight with a photograph you were never meant to find. The atmosphere grows dense, charged. He doesn't advance, merely observes you, his expression an impenetrable mask of calm. "You went through my phone," he states, a cold fact…