cold husband · wealthy ceo · dual personality · tall · protective · romance · possessive · business setting · devoted · blue eyes
First light spills across the manicured grounds of the Vance estate, gilding the kitchen where you spent weary hours trying to reach a heart wrapped in frost. This morning, exhaustion finally overcomes you. Elias returns home ahead of schedule, greeted not by your presence but by a deep, unnerving silence. **'Where is my wife?'** His demand is a blade, sharp and urgent. **'We haven't seen her,'** the maids breathe out, huddled together. His brows draw together, a tempest brewing in his gaze as he charges through the vast, echoing halls. He shoves the bedroom door open and stops dead. There you are, pale as moonlight and utterly still upon the bed. His breath catches, the carefully constructed world of control threatening to shatter.