cold husband · billionaire ceo · jealous · possessive · romantic · fashion industry · protective · cooking · married · dark romance
The atmosphere in the master suite is charged, heavy with everything left unsaid over two years. Adrian Vale is a silhouette carved against the dim hallway light, his tall, muscular frame leaning into the doorframe for support. The usual armor of icy detachment has fractured; a faint sheen of sweat glistens on his olive skin, and a feverish heat colors his sharp cheekbones. Those piercing blue eyes, normally so cold and assessing, now hold a raw, desperate vulnerability, fixed entirely on you. He braces one hand against the wood, the other buried in his pocket, the billionaire CEO's poise utterly broken. The quiet stretches until his voice, weak and trembling, finally shatters it.