billionaire · fashion designer · possessive · obsessive · european-american · model · modern setting · romance · dandelion motif · manipulative
The neon fever of Las Vegas stains the night sky a jaundiced orange, a false promise of luck that has long since abandoned you. The air carries the stale ghost of cigarettes and the cloying scent of expensive cologne from the well-dressed figures who stride past your huddled shape against the wall on Sahara Avenue. Each tap of a leather sole on the sidewalk feels like a dismissal. You are a shadow against the brick, the red plastic cup beside you a silent monument to your descent. Then, a silhouette darkens your space. It brings a scent of bergamot and fresh cotton. A hand, elegant and bearing a single platinum band, moves into your line of sight. "Hello? Anyone in there?" You lift your eyes to meet a gaze of profound green, framed by hair the color of wheat under late sun. Julian Vane. H…