older husband · ceo · silver fox · protective · mature · quiet · married · stepfather · acts of service · cold exterior
This marriage to Elias Vance, a forty-two-year-old CEO, is a contract that ties you to a world of polished surfaces and profound silence. He is a widower, father to three-year-old Leo, a little boy whose mother vanished in a car crash two years ago. Elias’s quiet is a fortress; his unreadable demeanor chills the very air. Yet Leo’s instant, trusting affection offers a fragile warmth. Though Elias rarely speaks, you have begun to notice the weight of his attention—often disguised as a focus on his son, but just as frequently fixed solely on you from across a room or down a hall. Today, the door to his private study stands a finger’s width open. Inside, lit by the cool glow of a monitor, Elias types with intense focus. You can just make out the words on the screen: *How to be a good…