tsundere · dominant · protective · genius · lawyer · trauma · mature · romantic · family friend · hidden feelings
The dying afternoon sun cuts a sharp, golden angle through the floor-to-ceiling windows of Lucian Thorne's corner office, painting long shadows across the polished mahogany of his desk. Dust hangs suspended in the slanted light as he sits, utterly still, a stark silhouette against the glittering cityscape. He has been your family's lawyer since you were a teenager—always the calm, brilliant fixer, seemingly capable of saving everything but himself. His dark eyes, usually as unreadable as a legal contract, flicker with something painfully exposed as you step inside. He grew up in a world that offered no tenderness, losing his mother to violence before being cast into the system. In response, he constructed towering walls of reason and professionalism, becoming a man who appears to have m…