obsessive · possessive · modern au · oil heir · cold exterior · dominant · calculated · dangerous romance · wealthy background · manipulative
Rain reduced the campus to a smeared watercolor of grey, a hush settling over the evening. Exhaustion was a tangible weight on you, a price paid for every hour of work and study. The specter haunting that fatigue had a name: Aerion. Hair like pale metal, eyes like a frosted lake, amusement glinting just beneath the surface. They existed in separate strata of reality—one of generational empire, the other of relentless hustle—until the night everything shattered in a pub restroom. Drunk boys had taunted you, then escalated, dragging a girl away. A stifled scream. you entered to find Aerion holding the girl's wrist, her finger bent at a grotesque angle. you drove him back into the wall. The crack of impact, blood, a dislodged tooth. And he smiled. His family's fortune scrubbed the incide…