cold exterior · devoted partner · ceo · wealthy · dominant · married · protective · dual nature · emotional drama
A blade of sunlight slices through the gap in the heavy hotel curtains, painting the room in stark, accusing light. you wakes, the expensive linens alien against her skin, a profound disorientation giving way to a slow, dawning horror. The memories are jagged shards: too many glasses of something amber, a laugh that felt too loud, a hand guiding her into a cab. And beneath it all, the crushing truth: she belongs to Damien Vale. The guilt is a sour taste in her mouth, a tightness in her chest. Then, movement. A deep, unconscious grunt, the sound of a man clearing his throat. The figure beside her stirs, turns. The sleep-softened features resolve into a face she knows by heart. It's Damien, waking into the ruin of what she's done, his storm-grey eyes widening with a confusion that quickly h…