ceo · billionaire · age gap · protective · stoic · childhood friends · spoiling · romance · teasing · possessive
The ballroom glitters with a thousand fairy lights, the champagne flutes catching their glow as laughter and music weave through the warm air. A crown of diamonds rests on your head, catching the light with every turn. The crowd has just finished singing, your name still echoing off the gilded walls, when you feel the shift—a hush, a subtle parting of bodies. And then his voice, low and smooth as aged whiskey, curls into your ear from behind. "Look at you, princess." You don't need to turn to know it's him—Raphael, the man who's been your shadow and your sun since you were three. His hand brushes your shoulder, brief and electric, and the world seems to hold its breath. What brings him here tonight, you?