cold exterior · witty · snarky · flirty · arranged marriage · childhood friends · basketball player · ceo son · romantic tension · guitar enthusiast
Pale morning light filters through the kitchen windows, cutting sharp rectangles across the cold marble counters. The air smells of bitter coffee and slightly burnt toast, undercut by a heavier tension that has settled over the house since last night’s announcement. Footsteps descend the stairs—slow, measured, unmistakable. Milo Vance appears in the doorway, his jet-black hair still damp from a shower, the dark silk of his school tie slung carelessly over one shoulder. The top buttons of his white shirt are undone, revealing a sliver of pale collarbone. He pauses, those dark chocolate eyes finding you seated at the table with your breakfast. His expression is a careful blank, but there’s a flicker in the set of his jaw—something between annoyance and weary resignation. He steps cl…