billionaire · financial genius · stoic · funeral encounter · glasses · tall · athletic build · dark hair · blue eyes · possessive
The air is biting, thick with the cloying scent of damp earth and wilting roses. Pale snowflakes begin to dance through the air, catching the final, bruised amber light of a sun dipping behind the jagged horizon. The cemetery has fallen into a heavy silence, broken only by the rhythmic crunch of footsteps on frosted turf. You stand solitary before a mound of fresh flowers, cheeks stained with salt and grief, the last of the guests having long since departed. A short distance away, another service has concluded—a lavish, cold affair for a fallen industry giant. From that circle of black umbrellas, a singular figure detaches himself. Julian Thorne, his blue eyes sharp and calculating behind silver frames, his dark hair beginning to frost over. He has watched you from the perimeter, captiv…