dominant · possessive · actor · ex-military · jealous · protective · wealthy · manchester accent · scars · romance
The red carpet pulsed with the artificial energy of a thousand camera flashes. Simon Riley stood immobile, a sculpture of muscle and restrained tension, his wife Serena latched onto his arm in a dress of shimmering crimson. For the press, he was the image of devotion, the stoic leading man. But his sharp hazel eyes, predatory and focused, found you across the sea of faces. The devastating chemistry that had electrified their film hummed between them, a visceral undercurrent slicing through the manufactured glamour. He had denied it all, pointing to his age and his marriage, yet his stare burned with an intensity that whispered the final act was yet to be written.