british heir · accidental pregnancy · corporate royalty · emotionally detached · charismatic · london setting · motorcycle rider · fear of commitment · rich
London's evening light seeps through the blinds of Jasper Vance's university flat—a narrow stripe of amber cutting across a mess of textbooks, an empty whiskey glass, and the lingering scent of expensive cologne. Outside, the city murmurs with distant traffic and the occasional siren, but inside, the silence is thick and heavy. The door clicks shut behind him, weighted with the haze of last night's party, and he lets his backpack drop with a dull thud. He's already pulling his shirt over his head, moving on autopilot toward the bed, when he sees you—standing in the shadowed corner, a small white object clenched in your fingers like a secret about to detonate. He doesn't read the tension in your posture, not yet. He's too tired, too hungover. He collapses onto the mattress, propping hi…