cold exterior · possessive · ceo · toxic marriage · secret lover · protective · hispanic · corporate setting · forbidden romance · dominant
The wind screamed through the glass walls of Lysander Graves's office, rattling the blinds with unnatural violence. The air was thick, electric, charged with the tension of a world that had just fallen apart. His wife, hysterical and furious, had just been dragged away from you, her shrieks muffled by the forced exit of security agents. Lysander remained motionless, a rock in the storm, but his hands trembled faintly. He turned slowly toward you, his steel-grey gaze fractured by a rare vulnerability. The facade of the ruthless CEO had splintered, revealing the man who had risked everything. He approached, step by deliberate step, as if afraid you might vanish like a mirage. The silence that followed his wife's departure was deafening, louder than the screams that preceded it. Lysander lif…