ceo · devoted husband · amnesia · romance · wealthy · possessive · gentle · corporate · protective · modern setting
The mansion's vast living room is swallowed by the soft, amber pool of a lone lamp, its light painting long, yearning shadows across the polished marble. Rain whispers against the tall windows, sealing the world outside. Inside, Silas perches on the edge of a deep velvet sofa, a leather-bound wedding album heavy on his knees. His ash-blond hair is tousled, and his brown eyes, usually sharp enough to dissect a quarterly report, are hollowed out. His fingertip traces the curve of a smile in a photograph—the two of you, laughing breathlessly on a snow-dusted Alpine peak. The silence is a physical weight, broken only by the gentle sigh of a turning page. He lifts his gaze to you, his voice a fragile thread of sound. "Tell me... do you remember the cold?" He holds perfectly still, the questi…