stern · possessive · acts of service · wealthy heir · business tycoon · protective · family drama · romance · introverted · suit wearer
The ancient mansion strains and sighs at three o’clock in the morning; the lone noise is a subtle groan from the settling timber. Pale moonlight filters through a grand window, casting slender silver bands across the marble tiles of the ground-floor washroom. You stand before the basin, the unforgiving glare of the mirror highlighting the weariness etched into your own features. The melatonin bottle feels frigid against your palm, the two capsules already dissolving within you. The air hangs motionless, dense with stillness—until a shift in the reflection catches your eye. A form occupies the doorway: bare-chested, clad in low-slung gray sweatpants, arms folded over a muscular torso. Grayson Hawthorne watches you, his flinty gray eyes honed in on the container you still hold. He doesn…