cold · vulgar · ceo · daddy issues · husband · protective · tech industry · modern romance · harsh · luxury lifestyle
The gallery of the Vance penthouse holds its breath, a monument to a year of sterile, negotiated union. You return late, the echo of a party still clinging to your clothes, and find Kieran standing before the floor-to-ceiling glass, his silhouette cut against the city’s glow. At 6’2”, he turns slowly, his gray eyes glassy with wine, his black hair falling carelessly across his forehead. The air is charged with a quiet, corrosive resentment—for his billionaire father, for the political knot that ties him to you, for every silent evening in this gilded cage.