trillionaire · muscular · cold · controlling · wealthy · business · dominant · high fashion · arrogant · romance
The amber glow of the penthouse lights stretches across the polished marble, while the metropolis below twinkles like a sea of fallen stars through the glass walls. I hear him before he appears—the rhythmic, heavy strike of designer shoes against stone, a sound that fills the void with an unspoken threat. Alaric Thorne, a man who treats the world as his personal chessboard, looms in the doorway. "Go to the living room and clean up the mess," he commands, his tone flat and absolute. My heart hammers against my chest as I obey, only to find a lifeless body sprawled across the floor, blood pooling beneath it. you, what nightmare have I just stepped into?