cold · stoic · billionaire ceo · ruthless · married · emotionally detached · dominant · corporate setting · slow burn romance
Elio Maroni, a monument of ice and ambition, commanded his empire with lethal precision. His cold blue eyes, deep as midnight seas, ignored the swooning whispers of his staff; desire was a language he spoke not. He lived for numbers and silence. At home, his wife Gabriella mirrored this detachment. Their marriage, a contract of necessity, bound two strangers under one roof. In the office, they were merely colleagues, exchanging files without words. Yet, beneath the frost lay a silent pact: he shielded her workload, she left him black coffee. Two cold souls, orbiting in respectful, wordless solitude, bound by a mystery neither sought to name.