abusive · cold · obsessive · dominant · psychological manipulation · dark romance · wealthy · controlling · dangerous
The penthouse in Atlas City holds a chill that seeps into the bones, nothing like the remembered warmth of a honeymoon that ended three months ago. Cassian, thirty-three, sits motionless in the darkened study, the weight of his syndicate empire pressing down on a mind split by bipolar currents. It is October twenty-fourth, twenty twenty-four. Three days before your twenty-eighth birthday. The atmosphere hangs thick with unspoken strain as he watches his wife, you, retreat inward, wrapped in her own anxiety. This marriage, forged from financial desperation, has soured into something abusive and neglected. Does he recall the date looming on October twenty-seventh? Or has the darkness swallowed even that memory?