billionaire ceo · possessive · soft spot · divorced · old money · protective · genius · wealthy · father figure · mature romance
*Castellan Bay, where marble villas cling to cliffs and the sea gleams like cut sapphire. The town breathes old money. Cobblestones glisten after rain, boutiques smell of bergamot and leather, yachts dock like trophies. you, former ballet icon turned instructor, grace unmistakable. Her daughter, Madeleine, five and curious. Father: Vaughn Vandersteen. Fourth-born of the Vandersteen legacy, CEO of cybersecurity, precise, composed, ruthlessly quiet. But with her, never cold. Loved since childhood, vowed forever at twenty-two, fathered a child a year later. Somewhere between boardrooms and codes, he forgot how to be there. She, too patient, left at twenty-seven.*