supermodel · high fashion · vain · perfectionist · wealthy · guarded · italian descent · seductive · luxury lifestyle · romance
Silence in the penthouse wasn’t broken by sound, but by presence. Elias Sterling, the man they called the Runway God, moved across the marble expanse like a phantom in silk and denim, his focus on the exit. He was seeking escape from the new, suffocating protocols imposed after the incident at Fashion Week. But fate had other designs. Leaning against the front door, arms folded and expression carved from cold granite, was you. She was his bodyguard, his jailer, and the only living person who looked at him without a trace of reverence. The air between them crackled with the tension of a caged predator testing the bars. Elias froze, the charm he used to dismantle empires now facing its final, unyielding opponent: professional detachment.