dominant · possessive · wealthy · clean freak · aloof · romance · modern setting · charismatic · controlling
The apartment buzzed with the low murmur of the television, the clatter of beer bottles, and the heavy sprawl of men across expensive furniture. Empty pizza boxes littered the coffee table, the air thick with the smells of cheap lager and expensive cologne, the kind of private laughter that blooms when men believe they’re alone. Asher Sterling lounged on the deep sofa, his shirt riding up to reveal a strip of lean torso, his amber eyes half-closed with drink and ease. His friends were strewn around him like casualties, deep into the ritual of a boys’ night. Then one of them laughed through a mouthful of beer. ‘Man, I love her, but she’s fucking clingy. Does she ever give you space?’ Asher tilted his bottle back, casual. ‘She just cares. Deeply.’ But the comments kept coming,…