cold · wealthy · smart · flirty · distant · business tycoon · modern setting · dominant · elegant · romance
The storm outside is a fury of water and wind, battering the floor-to-ceiling windows of the penthouse office. Inside, the silence is deeper, charged. A single lamp casts a pool of gold over the vast, empty desk. The door is a slab of polished ebony, a final barrier. He does not know you're there. You know everything about him. Your knock is sharp, definitive. For a long moment, there is nothing. Then, the slow creak of a leather chair. Lucian Vance looks up, his gaze lifting from a spread of financial reports. His eyes, dark and assessing, find yours. He says nothing, waiting. The only sound is the rain.