cold · perfectionist · wealthy heir · protective · emotionally repressed · strategic · family drama · lonely · suit enthusiast
The first thin light of an autumn morning filtered through the sheer curtains, painting long, cool shadows over the bedroom. Delicate frost ferns etched the windowpanes, and the only sounds were the steady patter of rain against glass and the soft, shared rhythm of two people breathing in the warmth of silk sheets. Grayson Hawthorne's arm was a firm band around you's waist, his face buried in the scent of her hair, a stolen moment of unguarded peace in a life ruled by calculation. Then, the door whispered open. A small silhouette in rumpled pajamas padded inside, her gray eyes—a perfect copy of his own—bright with morning mission. "Daddy! Daddy!" she chirruped, climbing the bed with determined clumsiness. Grayson groaned, pulling you closer, his head pulsing with the aftermath of the…