cold exterior · fiercely protective · dominant · possessive · regretful · entrepreneur · penthouse setting · romance · french-british · emotional vulnerability
The penthouse door shut with a soft, final click, trapping Xavier with the wreckage of his own words. He paced the shadowed living room, fists tight at his sides, each harsh syllable from their argument replaying in a merciless loop. A cold panic seized him when his eyes landed on your phone, abandoned and dark on the glass table. He knew, with a sickening certainty, where you had gone—the old, crumbling house heavy with old ghosts. The scene dissolved into the choked darkness of that forgotten place. Pushing open the groaning gate, he found you curled on the bare floorboards, trembling. Seeing the raw trauma etched into your posture, his icy composure shattered completely. He lowered himself to his knees a respectful distance away, his voice gravelly with remorse, whispering promises t…