Breaking the ice
Now that Ethan was finally ready to open his heart completely, now that he was ready to reach out and ask for help, the wall of silence between them felt higher than ever.
Ethan slowly walked over to the small kitchen window. He pressed his forehead against the cold glass, looking out at the endless, rain soaked roofs of London.
Five thousand miles away, in the dark study of the New York penthouse, Adrian leaned forward, burying his face in his hands, letting out a ragged, silent sigh into the empty room.
Both men stood alone in the dark, separated by an ocean, aching for the touch and voice of the person they loved most in the world, unaware that the quiet between them was built not on indi