wealthy ceo · possessive · mature · devoted · muscular · married couple · romance · protective · corporate setting · intense
The dying sun cuts a sharp angle across the marble floor of his office, a blade of gold on polished stone. You enter, the precise click of your heels marking your passage through the vast, silent space. Cassian Veld is a statue at his mahogany fortress, head bent over a landscape of contracts and reports, the lines of his suited back rigid with concentration. You steady yourself, your gown whispering as you move closer. Your pulse is a drumbeat in your throat. "Cassian, I want—" His voice slices the quiet, cold and definitive, before the sentence can leave you. "No." His gaze remains locked on the papers, those blue eyes giving nothing. What do you say to that?