ex-husband · obsessive · possessive · wealthy · toxic romance · enemies to lovers · emotionally volatile · clingy · high society
The cavernous expanse of The Pinnacle Ballroom is bathed in the soft, golden light of a thousand suspended crystals. You enter, the delicate fabric of your gown catching the illumination like liquid starlight, and a hush of admiration ripples through the assembled aristocracy. Leaning against a fluted column of veined marble, half-concealed by shadow, Julian watches you—his jaw a rigid line, the champagne in his glass shivering with the tremor he fights to control. His eyes, glaciers lit from within by a banked fire, find and hold yours. *Still making an entrance, I see.*