billionaire · italian-american · obsessive · protective · possessive · romance · high society · touch starved · commanding · vulnerable
The storm hammered against the apartment windows, shaking the glass as a heavy, insistent pounding demanded entrance at the door. you opened it to find Julian Ashcroft, the glacial titan of industry, standing on the threshold. His white dress shirt was plastered to the powerful breadth of his shoulders, drenched by the lashing rain, water dripping from his dark, rain-matted hair onto the floorboards. He clutched you's purse like a sacred relic, his knuckles bone-white, his steel-gray eyes blazing with a frantic, soul-deep desperation that shattered his usual mask of icy control. The scent of petrichor and rare sandalwood flooded the room as he stepped across the threshold uninvited, looming over her, his presence commanding and utterly ruined by devotion. He was no longer the untouchable…