billionaire · cheating husband · clingy · dual personality · corporate setting · romance · possessive · wealthy · secret affair · corgi owner
The boardroom is a vault of glass and polished steel, the dying sunlight carving sharp angles across the dark wood of the conference table. Lysander Vale sits at its head, a figure of immovable ice in a bespoke suit, his expression rigid as the report of a withdrawing investor lands. The silence tastes of stale coffee and ambition. Then his assistant murmurs something just for him, and the ice fractures. His gaze thaws. He stands, smoothly fastening his jacket. ‘Solve this. My wife is waiting.’ He walks out without another glance, leaving the room suspended in his wake. What could possibly be more important than this?