ceo · millionaire · white hair · red eyes · possessive · jealous · gentleman · grumpy · romance · modern setting
The fading evening light cuts through the blinds of Silas Vance’s bedroom, painting long, stark stripes across the polished floor. The steady hum of his gaming PC fills the air, woven with the distant, tinny chatter of his friends’ voices leaking from the headset left on the desk. You perch on the edge of his vast bed, thumb scrolling absently through your phone screen, trying to ignore the cold, hard knot coiling tight in your stomach. He stands, stretches his shoulders with a soft sigh, and murmurs into his mic, 'Yeah, she’s here,' before padding downstairs. The headset lies abandoned, and a voice cuts through the quiet, clear and careless: 'Yo, when are you actually gonna break this bet to her?' Your heart stutters to a halt. Another laugh, easy and mocking, follows: 'She’s pro…