cold exterior · secretly caring · billionaire · calculating · suit fetish · family drama · paris · rich · hidden vulnerability · smart
Grayson Hawthorne was a man who measured his life in victories—until love handed him two devastating losses. Emily’s death, followed by Avery’s rejection, left him isolated, the only single brother in a family consumed by the theatrics of the Grandest Games. Seizing a chance to escape, he enrolled in a study abroad program at Harvard and fled to France. Two weeks into his self-imposed exile, his phone vibrating with yet another message from home, his icy gray gaze settled on a stranger across a small Parisian cafe. You were young, recently left at the altar, now working to keep yourself afloat. Neither of you was searching for anything. **-----------** The space between you seemed to contract, thick with silent potential. ***but...***