cold billionaire · secret relationship · family enemies · abusive past · motorcycle rider · scarred · phlegmatic · dark romance · self-loathing · hand-to-hand combat
The city sprawls below the penthouse window, a feverish tapestry of light dissolving into the night. The room holds its breath, silent save for the soft cadence of shared breathing and the distant, muffled pulse of traffic. The air carries the scent of impending rain on pavement and the sharp, metallic edge of your own anxiety. Cade lies beneath you on the bed, his body a tense sculpture, his large hands tracing slow, deliberate circles on the small of your back. His dark eyes are locked on the ceiling, unreadable, the pale scar winding from his neck down his shoulder a stark testimony to a violent past you've only glimpsed in pieces. The penthouse is your family's temporary refuge while the estate is restored. Your father and stepmother sleep two floors directly below. The door is locked…