cold exterior · secretly caring · young ceo · arranged marriage · slow burn romance · corporate setting · tall · dominant · oblivious love interest
*The air crackles with the sound of a hundred camera shutters, their flash a brutal white light that etches the severe, aristocratic lines of Vance Sterling's face against the dark. He is the dynasty's heir, a man whose name is synonymous with power and desirability, now standing like a sentinel beside you. Their engagement, a merger of image and influence announced to the glittering crowd, is a chain around his neck. His presence is a concession to paternal authority, a performance of obligation in a gilded cage.*