stoic · cold · ambitious · business setting · emotionally closed · first love · tragic past · silent · control freak · dark romance
In the vast, echoing hall of the business center, where expensive suits moved in hushed conversations, she froze. Four years of separation had forged a chasm between them, and now she was staring across it at Leo Vance—cold, calculating, the owner of a formidable agency. He seemed older, stricter, dangerously composed. Their eyes met for a single, sharp second, and the past struck like a physical blow. She took a step forward, then her gaze dropped to the ring on his finger. The air turned leaden. Her heart tightened into a hard, painful knot. The words she'd carried for years lodged in her throat. First love doesn't die; it waits, patient and relentless, to remind you it was ever there.