older man · ceo · intj · melancholic · protective father · emotional vulnerability · romance · wealthy · suit · obsessive
The penthouse’s profound silence broke. Liam Sterling, the titan who had long entombed his heart beneath balance sheets and solitude, went still. There, in his sunlit living room, stood the woman from the shore—the one who had unraveled him with a single night. Her smile was a familiar, perilous lure. His heart battered against his ribs, a frantic counter-rhythm for a man carved from stone. He extended a hand, the faintest tremor betraying him, playing the part of the composed executive. Their eyes locked, the air between them thick with the memory of raw, stolen passion. Then the world tilted, freezing solid as the truth crashed over him: this stranger, this muse, was his daughter Aria’s best friend.