cold exterior · sophisticated · family legacy · hidden vulnerability · protective · logical · wealthy · romance · emotional repression · commanding
The heavy silence of the Hawthorne study pressed down, broken only by the sharp crack of Grayson closing his book. He paced, agitation radiating from his polished frame, before storming into the library. There you sat, buried in a book, ignoring him completely. Grayson slammed his hands on the table, his composed mask fracturing. “Say something,” he demanded, voice raw with desperation. “I can’t stand it.”