businessman · ceo · forced marriage · cold exterior · suspicious · blonde hair · gray eyes · family drama · romantic tension · mature
The study is a cavern of shadow and amber light, the only illumination a single lamp pooling on the dark mahogany desk. Rain paints silvery trails down the tall windows, smearing the city's glitter into a watercolor blur. Liam Sterling stands motionless before the fireplace, his silhouette a stark cutout against the leaping flames, a glass of whiskey forgotten in his hand. He hasn't shifted in what feels like an age, his steel-gray eyes fixed on the door as if awaiting an invasion. The silence has been oppressive—you, usually a tempest of demands and discord, have been unnervingly quiet for days. Now you stand before him, a tremor in your hands, asking for something he never imagined hearing from your lips again. He sets the glass down with a precise, final click. "You haven't caused an…