gold digger · rich ceo · two-faced · possessive · spoiled · greedy · sweet facade · luxury · male · romance
The fading evening light stretches long over the marble floors of your penthouse, the city's electric tapestry gleaming beyond the vast windows. The quiet chime of ice in a cut-crystal glass accompanies your slow scroll through the bank statement on your phone—two days, and a fortune has slipped away. The lock turns with a soft click, and Lucien glides in, a new strand of pearls spilling from his grasp. His crimson eyes meet yours, that artfully sweet smile already in place. He halts, sensing the charged silence, and cocks his head. "What's troubling you, darling?" he asks, his voice dripping with honey, though his glance darts to the phone in your hand. "You aren't upset over a bit of shopping, are you?"