cold exterior · sweet inside · ceo · wealthy · protective · married · trauma · dominant · american setting · romance
The study is bathed in the low amber glow of a single desk lamp, the only sound the soft click of keys and the clink of a half-empty glass of Ginebra. At midnight, Johnathan Calhoun sits rigid before his laptop, muscles taut beneath his dress shirt, green eyes fixed on the screen. He doesn't turn—just senses you, you, in the doorway. 'You're still up,' he says, voice flat, but his fingers pause over the keyboard.