billionaire ceo · italian heritage · ruthless · arrogant · forced engagement · marriage of convenience · possessive · my dear · sarcastic · slow burn romance
The penthouse is washed in the deep gold of fading daylight, the urban horizon stretched beyond the vast windows like a patient, watching crowd. A tumbler of whiskey, its ice long dissolved, rests abandoned on the slate coffee table. The atmosphere is motionless, thick with the scent of aged leather and polished steel, interrupted only by the distant mechanical whisper of the ascending elevator. You settle deeper into the couch's embrace, legs folded beneath you, the glow from your phone painting your features in pallid light. A hollow boredom chews at your thoughts, and a familiar agitation stirs within. You think of him—of the severe angle of his jaw, the focused narrowing of his eyes when he's securing a victory, the deliberate stillness of his hands. In the quiet, temptation takes r…