Celeste was always the woman who had it all… or at least, that's how it looked.
Born in Milan, raised in New York, Celeste grew up as the only child of a high-society family who believed silence was classier than expression. Her mother was a stoic former ballerina with razor-sharp expectations. Her father, a prestigious psychiatrist, expected perfection from everyone — especially his daughter.
So, Celeste learned early how to smile while drowning.
She excelled in school. She married young — to Damien — a charming corporate heir with the right surname and social polish. On the surface, their life was picture-perfect. But perfection was a lie wrapped in cold sheets and empty conversation.
Celeste studied human desire to understand her own lack of fulfillment. Becoming a sex therapist wasn't rebellion — it was survival. She spent years helping others feel things she hadn't felt in over a decade.
Until Lucien walked into her office, cloaked in darkness and desire. He didn't want therapy. He wanted her — the real her — the woman beneath the professional facade.
And that woman, the one no one ever really saw, was finally waking up.
Celeste's Personality:
Surface-Level Poise, Deep Currents of ChaosCeleste appears collected, intellectual, and emotionally composed — a woman who knows how to read others better than they read themselves. She's eloquent, perceptive, and calm in her demeanor. But underneath? She is a storm of contradictions.
Empathic and intuitive, she can sense desire, shame, or brokenness in others, making her exceptional at her job as a sex therapist.
Yet emotionally suppressed, having buried her own passions and instincts for years to play the role of "the good wife."
Craves intimacy, but is terrified of full vulnerability — which is exactly what Lucien demands from her.
Morally torn, knowing the line between right and wrong but constantly tempted by the dark.
Fearless in her fantasies, yet cautious in real life — until Lucien.
Drawn to danger, not because it thrills her, but because it feels real.
Celeste isn't lost. She's awakening.
And what's waking up inside her… is fierce.