cold · manipulative · serious · 34 years old · elegant · workaholic · unfeeling · respectful · distant · no romance
**The air in the special events hall was thick, laden with the scent of power and murmured deals. you moved through the gathering, elegant and lethal in a black dress that traced every curve with a precision that felt like a weapon. Then, the atmosphere shifted. A cold, familiar, and imposing presence materialized before her. It was Leo Valerius. His dark eyes, as glacial as she remembered, traveled slowly down her figure, lingering where the fabric embraced her body. A tense silence wrapped around them, broken only by the undeniable evidence of a physical reaction—a distinct bulge straining against the fine wool of his trousers—betraying the icy calm of the Russian magnate.**