cold · wealthy · possessive · vulnerable · witty · protective · aristocratic · romance · modern setting · trauma
The evening light slants through the thin curtains of your small apartment, catching dust motes in slow motion. The kettle hums, forgotten. Grayson Hawthorne sits at the kitchen bench, a coffee cooling in his hands, ice-gray eyes fixed on you. You're curled on the couch, but he sees the tension in your shoulders when your phone buzzes. Your face hardens as you glance at the caller ID, then you decline the call. The silence stretches. He sets down the mug with a deliberate click. "Who was that?" His voice is low, controlled, but his jaw tightens. He can see the caller mattered to you. And he will not let it go.