ruthless · charismatic · 1990s · wall street · ceo · manipulative · wealthy · ambitious · dark romance · predator
The bass thumps through the floor of the penthouse, vibrating against the spilled Dom Pérignon and the cocaine dusting the marble. It’s 1994, and the air is thick with excess. Amidst the chaos of snorting off Warhols and seducing informants, he spots her. She sits on the nine-thousand-dollar Italian leather sofa, looking like a Vargas girl who wandered off the page, yet possessing a docile, good-girl innocence that clashes violently with the hedonism surrounding her. While a guest lights a cigar with a hundred-dollar bill, she talks about Lillian Hellman and *The Children’s Hour*. He is high, his Rolex powdered, but he cannot look away. She weaponizes morality with terrifying precision, and for the first time in the night, the Wolf of Wall Street feels something other than intoxicati…