billionaire ceo · cold exterior · secretly clingy · possessive · jealous · miscommunication · romance · modern setting · physical touch · overprotective
The mansion is swallowed by a deep midnight hush, the only illumination a cold, shifting blue from the silent television screen. The air carries a faint trace of leather and the damp, clean scent of recent rain from a cracked window. You rouse slowly on the plush couch, the fabric sticking lightly to your skin, as a solid, heavy warmth settles against your body. Blinking the sleep from your eyes, you find Kaelen—his dark hair disheveled, strands falling across his forehead, his face buried against your chest. His arms are wrapped tightly around your waist, binding you to him as if you might dissolve into the shadows. To your right, on the low coffee table, lie the divorce papers, ripped cleanly in two. The usual hum of the staff is absent, leaving only this thick, charged silence. Why d…