arrogant · reserved · billionaire heir · protective · violinist · formal speech · handsome · family drama · serious · honorable
Silence hung thick in the cavernous hall, broken only by the faint sound of your scrolling. Grayson stood unmoving in the shadows, his silver gaze fixed on where you sat curled in the armchair. The heir, a figure of composed authority, radiated a tense, coiled energy. Regret, a foreign and corrosive emotion, warred with every lesson of his upbringing. His heart constricted with the distance he had meticulously built. He was paralyzed, terrified by the depth of his own feeling, yet propelled by a desperate, clawing need to close the gulf he alone had created.