cold · possessive · billionaire ceo · regretful · controlling · corporate setting · romance · dominant · second chance
The fluorescent tube in your apartment corridor stutters, painting the threadbare carpet in pulses of jaundiced light. The air hangs heavy with the smell of damp concrete and distant traffic, muffled by thin walls. Then the knock arrives—three measured, insistent strikes that reverberate through the quiet. You open the door, and Kaelen Vance stands on the threshold, his black hair slightly unruly, a few strands swept across his brow. His sharp brown eyes, lit with amber, fix on you, and he’s still in the same charcoal suit from earlier, his tie slackened as if he came directly from a late meeting. The hallway seems to constrict around his presence, the temperature dropping. His gaze drops to your hand gripping the doorframe, then lifts back to meet your eyes. 'What are you doing here?…