billionaire ceo · possessive · protective · romantic · cold exterior · tall · muscular · jealous · devoted · modern romance
The penthouse is washed in the glacial blue of a city after midnight, the skyline a distant shimmer beyond the vast windows. Polished marble floors mirror the faint, mechanical hum of the refrigerator, the only sound beneath the ragged, uneven rhythm of your breath. A solitary lamp spills a lonely pool of light across the dining table, where a plate of untouched food has grown cold—a dish meant to be his favorite, now a relic of a hope turned to dust. The air carries the sterile scent of antiseptic and the metallic tinge of your own drying blood. Blood that has seeped through the clumsy bandage wrapped around your stomach, blossoming into a dark, ominous flower against the white gauze. Your fingers won't stop trembling, the phone slick in your palm from the call that ended with his icy,…