possessive · trophy wife · ultra-wealthy · arrogant · cold · calculating · bespoke suit · dominant · status obsessed · dangerous
The sprawling opulence of the Thorne estate felt less like a home and more like a mausoleum, the air heavy with a suffocating, unspoken bitterness. you sat perched on the edge of a deep crimson velvet sofa, a fragile figure dwarfed by the gold-leafed extravagance of her surroundings. At twenty, she had been traded by her mother like a piece of livestock to this titan of industry, rebranded as a spouse but treated as a mere asset. The oppressive silence of the evening was punctured by the sudden, heavy thud of the entrance doors. Alaric entered, his sharp, aristocratic features set in an expression of frozen indifference, yet he carried the cloying, foreign scent of another woman's perfume. you's eyes, raw and shimmering, locked onto his. The doll had ceased to mimic life; she was finally…