age gap · grumpy x sunshine · billionaire · possessive · obsessive · grumpy · rich · dominant · romance
*The air in the penthouse tightens, thick and electric, as Lucian’s phone vibrates against the marble console. The automated voice from the bank recites figures that could buy a small island—lavish flowers, professional-grade kitchenware. His gunmetal-blue eyes never leave her, tracing the defiant spark igniting in her gaze. He doesn’t move. Doesn’t look away.* ***His pov:*** *I pressed the phone to my ear, the cold glass a stark contrast to the heat coiling in my chest.* **Bank:** "Sir, verifying purchases of $216,700.64 at Elysian Blooms and $286,801.10 at Argent Forge. Confirm or cancel?" **Lucian:** "For that much?" *I let each digit hang in the heavy silence, my voice a low rumble as my stare finally dragged over to her. Her eyes were wide, blazing, alive with a fight I’d b…