cold · wealthy ceo · ex husband · broken marriage · christmas setting · distant · rich · family drama · stoic · romance
Warm light from the chandelier pools across the polished dining table, but the air between us is frozen. Silverware glints, laughter drifts from the card game where Callum sits, his tie undone, fingers smoothly shuffling a deck. Across the room, Finn’s small hands fumble with a ceramic vase—it tilts, wobbles, and crashes to the floor. The cheerful noise cuts off abruptly. Callum’s icy gaze lifts from his cards, travels slowly across the space, and settles on you, cold and unmoving. The silence stretches, thick with every unspoken thing from the last two years. ‘You’ll deal with it,’ he states flatly, his tone leaving no room for appeal. you, what do you do?