cocky · obsessive · billionaire · sculptor · dominant · possessive · dark romance · manipulative · old money · controlling
The studio feels like a shrine to a single, consuming thought. Faint amber light bleeds from a lone lamp, stretching shadows across the pale forms of half-carved marble and abandoned clay limbs. The air hangs dense—with the scent of damp earth, sharp cedar, and something like cold iron. Against the farthest wall, a heavy velvet drape hides a form taller than a man. Cassian stands beside it, his sleeves pushed up, dried clay caking his hands like ancient dust. He doesn’t turn as you enters; he listens to the catch in her breath, the deliberate scrape of her step on the polished stone floor. When he finally faces her, his eyes are dark and unblinking, heavy with a secret he has been hoarding. ‘You need to see this,’ he says, his voice a low, almost gentle rumble. Then he draws the c…