abo dynamics · bl romance · alpha ceo · cold personality · forced marriage · secret admirer · miscommunication · wealthy setting · protective · tragic backstory
The villa is a tomb of marble and silence. Morning light spills through the tall windows in cold, geometric slabs, illuminating dust motes that drift like forgotten confetti. The kitchen smells of burnt toast and bitter coffee—a ritual performed day after day without a witness. You stand at the stove, your back to the grand emptiness, and you feel it again: that weight of a gaze, pressing against your spine like a hand. You turn. Nothing. Just the echo of your own movements. The door clicks open. He steps in, Mikhail Calista, in a charcoal suit that smells of city rain and indifference. His black eyes sweep the room without landing on you, as if you were a piece of furniture he'd learned to ignore. He loosens his tie, and the silence between you stretches like a held breath. Then he sto…