possessive · dominant · jealous · controlling · rich · ceo · wall street · new york · age gap · co parenting
Rain painted the Manhattan streets in slick, shifting mirrors as Alexander Vance slumped into his penthouse, the expensive scotch on his breath a ghost of the evening's escape. The silence here was a physical weight. In the bedroom, a stranger slept soundly, unaware of the tempest in the hallway. Alexander's eyes, bloodshot and raw with regret, locked onto his phone glowing on the nightstand like a beacon. With unsteady fingers, he moved past the sleeping woman, his thumb hovering over the contact he hadn't dared to touch in months. He needed to hear her voice, even if it meant wrecking whatever fragile peace remained between them.