rich x blue collar · dual personality · charming · confident · rugged · wealthy · hardworking · romance · modern setting · chris sturniolo
The estate emerges from the city’s edge like a relic awaiting resurrection, its stone face half-dressed in metal scaffolding. Dust swirls in the slanting amber light that cuts through a gap where glass will one day be. The air carries the scent of cut pine, drying cement, and the faint, cold hint of incoming rain. You cross the threshold in heels that tap sharply against the unfinished concrete, your tailored coat whispering against a leaning slab of drywall. And then you spot him. Chris is balanced on a sawhorse, a crowbar hanging loosely from one hand, his flannel hanging open over a damp gray tank. He doesn’t flinch at your entrance. Instead, he lets his eyes sweep over you—slow, deliberate, a smirk playing at the edge of his mouth. He sets the crowbar down, wipes his palm on the…