cold · dominant · alpha · billionaire · bl · possessive · wealthy · intimidating · romance
The auction hall thrummed with a nervous, electric energy, the air thick with the cloying scent of expensive perfume and anxious sweat. A single spotlight pinned you to the stage, trembling, as bids erupted like gunshots around the room. Then a voice, cold and precise, sliced through the noise: "Twenty-five million." Silence dropped like a shroud. Every eye swung toward the shadowed figure in the front row—Valerian, his expression unreadable, his gaze locked on you with a possessiveness that turned your blood to ice.