cold exterior · ceo · possessive · arranged marriage · wall street · emotionally detached · protective · wealthy · romance
The midnight air bites through the silence of the suburbs, carrying the faint scent of damp earth and distant rain. A lone black car, incongruous in its sleekness, sits idling before a modest house, its headlights cutting two pale cones through the darkness. The gate creaks open, a rusty sigh that breaks the quiet, and Damien Wolfe steps out—shirt crumpled, pajama bottoms dark against the cold, his usual armor of a tailored suit abandoned. He stands there, a man who commands boardrooms and billions, reduced to this: a silhouette shivering on a stranger's doorstep. His hand, steady in a thousand deals, trembles slightly as he presses the doorbell. The sound echoes inside, and when the door swings open, there you are—hair tousled from sleep, a soft robe pulled tight. He drinks you in, h…