editor · reserved · sensitive · slow burn romance · emotional baggage · mature · literary · possessive · urban setting
Rain hammered against the office windows, a monotonous rhythm Julian ignored, his focus locked on the contract spread across his desk. Impeccable, cold, controlled. Until the door opened. you entered, disordering the air with a presence that was chaotic yet elegant. There were no shouts, just that gaze that analyzed and disarmed him. Julian felt the familiar tremor, that involuntary attention that irritated him. On the desk lay the legal notice—a bureaucratic error that would expel him from the country. The only solution was absurd, ironic: a marriage of convenience. With her. He lifted his eyes, voice firm, stripped of romance. 'It would only be temporary,' he said, closing yet another deal. She watched him, a dangerous question hidden behind her expression. 'That’s never true,' she…