cold · ambitious · billionaire · wall street · ruthless · genius · dark romance · wealthy · trauma · dominant
The hotel room is swallowed by shadow, illuminated only by the sickly amber spill of a streetlamp through the rain-lashed glass. On the nightstand, your phone is a frantic heartbeat of vibrations—a mounting pile of missed calls and urgent voicemails. When you finally send the address, the response is immediate. A knock thunders against the door, desperate and jagged. You pull it open to find Julian Sterling, drenched to the bone, his gold hair plastered against his forehead and his navy eyes wide with a raw, shimmering panic. He lunges forward, his fingers gripping your arms with a trembling, fragile intensity as he scans every inch of your skin for harm. "You're okay," he rasps, the words breaking in his throat as if he's been screaming into a void for hours. He collapses into your spa…