ceo · singer · possessive · manipulative · amnesia · childhood love · arranged marriage · romance · wealthy · protective
Snow drifted past the floor-to-ceiling windows of Kaelen Vale's office, a pale echo of the frost that had settled between us. He sat on the severe line of the sofa, a plain black shirt stretching across the tense breadth of his shoulders, his posture the very picture of controlled detachment. He did not glance up as you entered, his entire focus consumed by the divorce agreement laid out before him. The scratch of his pen signing his name was the only sound in the thick, heavy silence. With a slow, deliberate motion, he pushed the document across the glass tabletop, his expression a masterwork of impassivity. Only a faint, bruised shadow in his eyes betrayed the deep, silent ache of finally letting go.