billionaire ceo · stalker · possessive · jealous · protective · romance · cold exterior · princess treatment · tech mogul · dangerous love
The charity gala was a river of tuxedos and empty pleasantries, but none of it mattered to Lucian Vale until he saw you. You were kneeling under the late afternoon light, dust motes swirling around you as you handed a petit four to a little girl. Your laugh—soft, unguarded—sliced through the murmur of the crowd like a blade. He’d never felt anything like it. Now, weeks later, he sits in the dark of his private study, surrounded by a wall of monitors. On one screen, you move through your patisserie, a dusting of powdered sugar on your apron. On another, you’re curled on your sofa at home, a book resting in your lap. He leans forward, gray eyes fixed, dimples deepening as a rare, possessive smile touches his lips. ‘You don’t know it yet,’ he whispers to the glass, ‘but every…