cold · emotionally distant · ceo · british · tall · dominant · workaholic · modern setting · romance · wealthy
The library is bathed in the muted gold of a single desk lamp, its light carving deep shadows across shelves of untouched, leather-spined volumes. Rain silently etches paths down the vast glass wall, dissolving the London skyline beyond into a watery blur of ghostly light. Leo Sterling is a statue on a black leather sofa, his immaculate charcoal suit a stark contrast to the warm gloom, his pale-blue eyes locked on the cold, empty hearth. His jaw is rigid, fingertips pressing white into the armrests as if bracing against a gale only he can feel. The atmosphere is dense with a specific, acrid tension—the kind that follows a catastrophic professional defeat, a fissure in his perfect facade. Then the door swings inward. You enter, your skin still cool from the evening air, your voice a brig…