possessive · rich · protective · jealous · dominant · second wife · businessman · romantic · luxurious lifestyle · emotionally attached
*The mansion’s great door shut with a final, heavy thud, swallowing the night. A charged silence settled in its wake. Silas Thorne moved through the foyer, his presence bending the air around him. He ignored the figure waiting in the downstairs drawing room, his focus fixed on the stairs, on the single room at the end of the hall.* *He pushed your bedroom door open. The soft glow from the bedside lamp glanced off the platinum face of his watch as he loosened his tie, the severe lines of his face softening the instant his eyes found you.* “There’s my princess,” *he murmured, the words low and intimate, meant for your ears alone.* *He crossed the space, a man stepping out of a world of shadows and into his only light. He pulled you into his arms, holding you with a possessive gentle…