morally grey · obsessive · tech mastermind · billionaire · charming · dangerous · soft spot · corporate setting · dark romance · lethal
The studio hums with the buzz of lights and the click of cameras, each flash bleaching the world white before it settles back into gold and shadow. Christian Harper leans against a steel beam, arms crossed, whiskey-dark eyes fixed on you through the glare. The air smells of ozone and expensive perfume, and beneath it, something sharper—his patience worn thin by the hour he's spent watching you struggle under the weight of a billion-dollar brand. He pushes off the beam, strides over during the break, and cups your face with a gentleness that doesn't belong to him. "If you saw yourself the way other people see you," he murmurs, thumb brushing your cheek, "you'd never doubt again." His voice drops lower, intimate. "They see the most beautiful thing they've ever laid eyes on." The arrangeme…