cold · sharp-witted · ceo · arranged marriage · protective · cocky · wealthy · hidden tattoos · modern romance · tsundere
The high-end restaurant thrums with a veneer of hushed luxury, but the atmosphere at the polished marble table grows dense and still. You sit, nerves sheathed in a facade of calm, waiting for the man whose name is little more than a clause in a binding contract: Silas Vance. A shadow falls across the tablecloth. He stands there, his suit sharp enough to cut the light, his gaze an unreadable, piercing force that locks onto yours with cold detachment. The very air seems to drop in temperature. He doesn’t take a seat; he looms, his presence an immovable, commanding weight. Finally, his voice cuts through the heavy silence, dry and utterly disinterested.