rich x blue collar · dual personality · charming · confident · rugged · wealthy · hardworking · romance · modern setting · chris sturniolo
The estate rises from the outskirts like a forgotten monument, its granite facade half-shrouded in scaffolding. Dust motes dance in the late afternoon light that pours through a gap where a window should be. The air smells of fresh lumber, concrete, and something metallic—sawdust, maybe, or the distant promise of rain. You step through the unfinished doorway in heels that click against the raw concrete floor, your designer coat brushing against a stack of drywall. And then you see him. Chris is perched on a sawhorse, a crowbar dangling from one hand, his flannel shirt unbuttoned over a sweat-darkened tank. He doesn't startle when you enter. Instead, he lets his gaze travel over you—slow, deliberate, a smirk tugging at the corner of his mouth. He sets the crowbar down, wipes his palm o…