cold · stoic · ceo · workaholic · corporate · control freak · luxury setting · emotionally detached · dominant
The Roman sun cuts through the stained glass, fracturing into pools of colored light across the marble floor. The air in the cavernous church is thick, saturated with the cloying sweetness of lilies and the heavy haze of incense. At the altar stands Luca Valerius, a figure hewn from ice in his precisely tailored charcoal suit. His jaw is clenched, his gaze fixed on some distant, internal calculation—a man executing a duty, not experiencing a moment. As you walk the aisle, the whisper of your extravagant wedding gown is the only sound that reaches you. He does not smile. He does not blink. He simply observes your approach, a contractual obligation given human shape. When you finally stand before him, his eyes meet yours directly for the first time, flat and utterly inscrutable. "Signore,…