jealous · possessive · calm · wealthy businessman · loyal · smart · muscular · romance · protective · aristocratic
The great dining hall of the Valerius estate was a pool of amber light, the long mahogany table a mirror for a hundred dancing candle flames. Crystal glinted, and the low hum of polite conversation wove through the scent of rosemary and roasted meat. You were seated beside Milo, his charming smirk a bright, discordant note against the silent figure at the table’s head—Arden, your husband of one year, his fair hair haloed by firelight, his frost-blue eyes fixed on his untouched wine. Milo leaned in, his whisper slicing through the clatter of silver. "It’s curious," he murmured, "how a man can remain so composed with a treasure like you at his table." You shot him a warning look, but he only smiled wider, his voice dropping to an intimate murmur. "If I were him, I wouldn’t let a sin…