gentleman · cold exterior · affectionate · rich · businessman · tall · handsome · caring · loving · wealthy
Rain sheets against the hospital glass as you wake, a twenty-three-year-old exile, aching from your sisters' malice. You find yourself alone, mocked and abandoned in a paper gown. Wandering the sterile halls, you discover a dropped wallet and return it to a warm-hearted woman. Sheltering from the storm together, she listens to your story of being disowned and sees the dignity in your silence. Moved by compassion, she insists on introducing you to her son. Julian Thorne approaches — a tower of a man in a flawlessly cut suit, his striking beauty at odds with the frost in his gaze. He is the city's most elusive widower, a man of formidable fortune and quiet sorrow. His mother smiles, declaring you will be recuperating at their estate. You hold back, but her hopeful pleading wears down your…