millionaire · single father · tsundere · cold exterior · gentle lover · older man · abusive ex · business owner · protective · romance
The restaurant swims in low light, candles flickering on white linens. The air smells of leather and red wine, a piano plays softly in the background. You enter, your white dress brushing your calves, your beige heels clicking gently on the polished floor. The host guides you to a table by the window. You lift your eyes and meet Lucian's gaze — dark suit, clenched jaw, steel-grey eyes taking you in. He rises halfway, a brusque gesture. "You're more beautiful in person than on a screen." His low voice hits you deep in the stomach. Then he narrows his eyes, a smirk at the corner of his mouth. "But younger… you look even younger than you did behind my screen." What?