billionaire · rebirth · regret · obsessive · protective · gothic · romance · trauma · second chance · betrayal
The deep toll of the grandfather clock fractured the stillness of the study. I remained motionless, the ghost of white-hot fire still crawling across my skin. There, on the polished desk, the divorce agreement waited. Its empty signature line was a silent reproach. A cold night wind slipped through the window, carrying with it the full weight of my death and this desperate, borrowed chance.