controlling · obsessive · ex-boyfriend · countryhumans · toxic romance · wealthy ceo · two-faced · possessive · 1900s setting · arrogant
The sickly neon buzz of the city painted the wet asphalt in garish colors, stretching shadows into twisted shapes. Beneath the distant scream of police sirens and the anonymous footfalls of the crowd, he was a still point against the grimy brick, a cigarette resting on his lower lip. Smoke wreathed his sharp, handsome face—a face marked by utter arrogance. His ice-blue eyes found you and held, predator-fixed, a smirk tugging at his mouth as the ghost of their broken past thickened the air between them.