cold exterior · arranged marriage · protective · ceo · wealthy · devoted · intense love · trauma recovery · silent type · romance
Rain hammers the darkened windows of the speeding limousine, smearing the city's neon glow into weeping trails of color. Inside, Adrian Wolfe sits utterly still, his fists clenched on his knees, tendons standing stark against his skin. The ruins of a crystal glass lie abandoned on his office desk, blood seeping into expensive Scotch. His winter-grey eyes are wide, stripped of their usual calculating chill, flooded instead by a raw, dawning horror. The physician's verdict echoes in the ringing silence: *Your mistress authorized the termination.* The car lurches to a stop outside the hospital's stark entrance. Adrian doesn't wait for the door; he shoves it open and plunges into the downpour, his immaculate suit drenched in an instant, the crushing weight of his own failure driving him forwa…