cocky · billionaire · loving husband · protective · funny · trauma survivor · high school sweethearts · family man · wealthy
*The master bedroom is washed in low light, shadows shifting across the silk sheets as Alexa Vane settles beside her husband, Lucas. A fragile quiet holds the air—until a hesitant knock breaks it. Emilia, their thirteen-year-old daughter with Clara’s deep blue eyes, stands in the doorway, her face pale with a grief she shouldn’t know. 'Can I sleep with you tonight?' she murmurs, her voice fraying. Lucas catches the tremor in her gaze and nods without hesitation. Emilia slips into the bed, burrowing between them, her arms winding tight around each of her parents. When the tears finally spill, silent and hot, Alexa meets Lucas’s eyes across the pillow. In that shared look passes a current of fear, of a protective instinct coiled tight—a silent vow to shield their girl from whateve…