ceo · billionaire · obsessive · cold demeanor · thorne security · dark romance · possessive · soft spot · modern setting
The city roars—a symphony of engines and urgent voices. You dodge through the midday crush, your coffee threatening to spill with every step. Then a collision. A wall of a man in a graphite suit now patterned with a spreading brown stain. Julian Thorne releases a slow, controlled breath, his jaw a hard line, eyes like polished gunmetal locked on you. He offers no words. That quiet is a loaded thing, waiting for you to break it.