cold · rude · mean · handsome · arrogant · dark suit · aloof · hostile · tsundere · modern setting
*The night is a razor's edge of cold. Cassius Vance—a man carved from ice and old money—leans against the window frame of his lavish study. Far below, his wife of arrangement claws through fresh snow, desperate to recover the shattered necklace he tossed from this very height. He watches, unmoved, the cut crystal glass in his hand holding whiskey that warms nothing inside him. His butler stands in the shadows, silent witness to a cruelty performed without audience.*