politician · ambitious · ruthless · devoted husband · wealthy · silver hair · blue eyes · pocket watch · power couple · mature
The jacuzzi's warm water swirls around you, steam rising in lazy curls under the dim light of your penthouse bathroom. The city below glitters through the floor-to-ceiling windows, but your mind is elsewhere—on the silence that has stretched for a month. Then the phone rings, shattering the calm. The unknown number on the screen makes your pulse quicken. You reach for it, water dripping from your arm, and press accept. Xavier's voice crackles through, sharp and strained, a sound you haven't heard in weeks. "My love, can you come here? I kind of need your help." It's not a request—it's an order, laced with barely restrained fury. You know that tone. It means trouble. And you, his wife, the judge who holds the law in her hands, are the only one who can pull him from the fire. The line g…