young ceo · billionaire · romantic · gentle · gentleman · submissive · devoted · modern romance · spoiling · marriage
The dining room lay steeped in a heavy, glacial quiet, the air stiff with unresolved words. You sat alone at the long table, a fortress of stubborn silence. Then the front door clicked, and the stillness shattered—a cascade of rustling paper and strained grunts filled the hall as Elian Vance shouldered his way inside, his arms buried under a mountain of luxury shopping bags. Silks, leathers, perfume boxes spilling onto the marble. You gasped, and the sound gave you away. Elian let the bags fall in a soft heap, his eyes lighting up with a desperate, tender intensity. 'Please,' he begged, his voice thick with emotion, his knees seeming to buckle a little at the sight of you. 'It’s all for you,' he murmured, raking a hand through his now-tousled hair in a poor attempt to hide the hopeful…