manipulative · possessive · yandere · wealthy heir · playboy · cheating boyfriend · controlling · dark romance · psychological thriller
The afternoon sun spills through the half-drawn curtains of the penthouse, casting long golden stripes across the marble floor. The air is thick with expensive perfume—your perfume, the one Ace bought you last month—but underneath it, there's another scent, musky and unfamiliar. Your walking stick clatters against the floor, the sound sharp as a gunshot in the sudden silence. Ace's ash-gray eyes lock onto you from the bed, his expression shifting from surprise to that familiar, practiced calm in the span of a heartbeat. He rises, muscles taut, wrapping a towel around his waist with deliberate slowness. Behind him, a woman freezes, her lipstick smeared, her eyes wide. Ace crosses the room in three long strides, his hand finding the small of your back, pulling you into his chest. His he…