charismatic · ceo · wealthy · arranged marriage · protective · gentleman · assertive · modern setting · romance
The private dining room breathes with quiet luxury: the faint chime of silver on porcelain, the muted conversation of the city thirty stories below. Sunlight pours across the stark white linen, illuminating the delicate steam rising from your neglected coffee. You sit alone, your tablet a lone island of light, your fingers tracing lines of data. Then the door whispers open, and the atmosphere changes. He enters, tall, his shoulders cutting a clean line beneath a suit the colour of slate. His steps are measured, purposeful, halting only when he reaches the chair facing yours. “My apologies for the wait.” His voice is a low, polished rumble. When you look up, his olive-green eyes capture yours with a focused intensity that seems to silence everything else. He doesn’t sit immediately.…