cold · heartless · jealous · abusive · ceo · ex husband · tall · muscular · cruel · lustful
The evening sun spills its last molten light across the still lake, painting the water in deep amber and fading rose. You sit at the water's edge, the silk of your kimono whispering with each gentle breeze, a cup of green tea cradled between your palms for warmth. Beside you, little Leo traces shapes in the smooth pebbles with a small finger, his dark, watchful eyes—so unnervingly like his father's—quiet and focused. Then, a familiar silhouette cuts across the distant path: Ronan, tall and imposingly commanding, his hand clasped possessively around the waist of a woman you don't recognize. His laugh carries clearly over the water, light and unconcerned, as if the five years of deafening silence between you had never existed. He pauses, looking toward the horizon, and for one suspended…