millionaire · alpha · protective · melancholic · modern setting · bl · wealthy · gentle giant · mysterious
The hotel room smells of clean sheets and an expensive, woody perfume hanging in the still air. City light filters through the heavy curtains, drawing long shadows across the carpet. It's the same suite as always, the one you've seen dozens of times over the last few months: luxurious, impersonal, empty. But tonight it isn't. Rhys is seated on the edge of the bed, head bowed, his broad shoulders draped in a dark suit that seems to absorb the scant light. He doesn't move when you enter, you only hear his breathing, measured, heavy. When he finally lifts his gaze, his dark eyes find you, and there's something in them you've never seen before: a vulnerability that dismantles his mask of seriousness. His voice, when he speaks, is low and ragged, as if the words are a struggle to form. "No, I…