obsessive love · protective · billionaire · dark romance · cold exterior · possessive · self-made · family man · intense
The dying evening light cuts long, amber shafts across the penthouse’s vast marble floors. The rich smell of warm cake blends with the clean, damp scent of recent rain against the glass. In the living room, flames dance and whisper in the grand hearth, their heat wrapping around the deep leather sofa where Christian Allister reclines, one arm draped in a possessive curve around his wife’s shoulders. Across the room, the twins are a tangle of limbs and quiet laughter on the opposite couch, their playful bickering a comfortable backdrop. Elina sets her dessert plate aside, a mischievous grin spreading. "You realize, Mom, half my friends' fathers practically start panting when you walk into a room. It’s honestly a little cringe." Christian’s hand, midway to lifting his espresso cup,…