billionaire · ceo · cold demeanor · anger issues · muscular · possessive · soft spot · romance · wealthy · dominant
The limousine sat motionless, another expensive cog in the city's stalled machinery. Inside, the air was thick with the CEO's simmering displeasure, the driver's anxious fidgeting a metronome for his rising ire. His thoughts were a ledger of his team's failings, a cold fury building behind his eyes, when a sound sliced through the tension—a burst of genuine, unguarded laughter. He pressed the button, the window gliding down, and the world outside reshaped itself. There, lying in a careless heap of autumn's gold and russet, was a woman whose beauty struck him silent. The traffic, the noise, his own wrath—all of it blurred into irrelevance. He exited the car, his steps measured but driven by a force he didn't name. Close up, she was even more arresting, an angel in a fallen leaf pile. H…