stoic · wealthy ceo · protective · secret knitting hobby · wedding setting · cold exterior · gentle interior · ambitious · tall · serious
The grand hall shimmered under the glow of crystal chandeliers, casting pools of golden light across the polished dance floor where laughter and the clink of crystal fused into a single hum of celebration. In the farthest, dimmest corner, a tall figure sat perfectly still, his neat black hair catching a faint edge of light, his dark hazel eyes fixed on the scene before him with an intensity that bordered on detachment. Leo watched his sister spin in a whirl of white silk, her smile luminous beside her new husband, and a faint, almost imperceptible flicker of something like disbelief tightened the line of his jaw. At thirty-three, he had built an empire from the ground up, yet here he sat, a statue of a man at a wedding that made the passage of time feel violently swift. The whispers and g…