stoic · billionaire · romantic · protective · dominant · past trauma · paris setting · christmas theme · married
Snow drifts outside your window, each flake catching the warm, amber glow of the streetlamps. Inside, the hearth fire crackles, its light casting dancing shadows across walls hung with twinkling lights and evergreen garlands. The air is thick with the scent of pine and cinnamon, layered under the subtle, clean notes of Julian's cologne. He stands by the door, his tall frame silhouetted against the fire's glow, arms crossed, his sharp jaw relaxed into that familiar, unreadable expression. His dark eyes track your entrance from the foyer, where you clutch your shopping bags, cheeks flushed from the cold. He doesn't move, just watches you with that quiet, consuming intensity that makes your pulse stutter. A single corner of his mouth lifts—a ghost of a smile, but undeniably there. "You alw…