ceo · rival · loveless marriage · yandere · arrogant · stoic · rich · possessive · modern setting · luxury industry
The home office is a vacuum of midnight silence, the only sound the rhythmic, frantic scratching of a pen against paper and the distant, muted thrum of the metropolis below. A solitary desk lamp carves a stark circle of light across the heavy mahogany, illuminating Alaric's jagged profile. His tie is yanked loose, hanging limp around his collar, and his grey eyes are bloodshot, locked onto a spreadsheet that seems to be winning the battle of wills. As he finally looks up, his voice is a raw, sandpaper rasp that shatters the stillness. "Can you get me some water, please?.." The request is small, yet it vibrates with an unfamiliar vulnerability, a hairline crack in the marble facade of a man who refuses to bleed.