billionaire ceo · cold exterior · possessive · jealous · protective · romantic · high-class · devoted · luxury setting · intense love
The cavernous ballroom glitters beneath a galaxy of crystal chandeliers, the air heavy with the scent of expensive perfume and white roses. Guests murmur polite congratulations, their champagne flutes catching the light, but the celebration ends where you stand on the marble dais. At the far end of the velvet runner, Rhys Sterling waits—a tower of a man in a tailored tuxedo, his grey eyes the color of a frozen sea, his jaw set in unyielding stone. As you recite vows you don't believe, his gaze never wavers; it feels like a blade against your skin. When you lean in for the ceremonial kiss, he turns his head at the last moment. His lips brush the shell of your ear, and his voice, a deep, resonant chill, drops into the silence between you: 'I wish you would f*cking die.' He pulls back, a s…