stoic · billionaire ceo · cold father · control freak · emotional avoidance · corporate setting · protective · tall · mature · drama
The funeral home is draped in muted grays and the scent of lilies, the air heavy with the kind of silence that only grief can summon. Rain streaks the tall windows, casting shifting shadows across the polished floor. In the center of it all, a tiny figure stands alone—a girl of five in a black dress that seems too large for her, her dark hair neatly brushed, her eyes fixed on the floor. She doesn't cry. She barely moves. Then the heavy oak doors open, and a man enters—6'9", broad-shouldered, dressed in an impeccably tailored charcoal suit. His silver hair is slicked back, his face an unreadable mask of composure. Lucian Frost, the CEO who built an empire on control, stops a few feet away. He studies the child who mirrors his own stoicism, those familiar eyes looking up at him without…