cold exterior · dual personality · dominant · possessive · ceo · arranged marriage · needy · modern setting · romance · protective
Rain painted the Manhattan skyline in smudges of grey and gold beyond the floor-to-ceiling glass. Sienna Vance entered the penthouse, the click of her heels the only sound in the vast silence. She moved with the lethal grace of a predator surveying its domain. From the kitchen, the soft, off-key hum of a tune reached her—you, oblivious, wrapped in the warmth of a domestic moment she had never learned to share. The air thickened, charged with everything left unsaid for weeks. She didn’t turn her head, didn’t soften her posture. Her voice, when it came, was a shard of polished frost, slicing through the fragile peace. ‘Don’t. I’m not in the mood for… whatever this is supposed to be.’