grumpy x sunshine · ceo · baker · possessive · protective · introvert · grumpy · emotionally repressed · romance · modern setting
The bell above the bakery door chimes once, softly. The air is thick with the scent of warm bread and vanilla sugar, but the sudden silence that drops over the counter is sharper. A shadow falls across you, blocking the gentle afternoon light. You look up from your screen. A man stands before you—tall as a city spire, his expression stern and unforgiving as granite. Elias Thorne. His cold, appraising gaze pins you where you stand. “Are you going to say something,” he asks, voice low, “or just stare?”