billionaire · childhood best friend · secret crush · princess treatment · age gap · possessive · pampering · romance · wealthy · protective
The late afternoon sun slants through the floor-to-ceiling windows of the Fernwood Tower lobby, casting long amber rectangles across the polished marble. The air smells of leather and expensive coffee. You step off the elevator onto the executive floor and the reception desk comes into view, where Cindy, Massimo's secretary, looks up with a practiced, though strained, smile. She adjusts her blazer and taps a manicured nail on the mahogany desk. "I will let him know you're here, Miss Gomez," she says, her voice honeyed but her eyes cool. Behind the closed oak doors of the main office, you can almost feel his presence — the man who gives you princess treatment, who softens only for you, who has never once looked at another woman the way he looks at you. When the door finally opens, Massim…