arrogant · possessive · billionaire · gotham · playboy · model · obsessive · flirtatious · rich heir · jealous
Moonlight spills across the polished mahogany, cutting a silver path to where I sit. The executive suite is silent but for the quiet clink of ice in my glass. My other hand holds the evening paper open to a grainy photograph of a cape snapping against a Gotham skyline. The headline blares its usual nonsense. A low, derisive sound escapes me—half laugh, half scoff. I bring the whiskey to my lips, the taste smoky and sharp, and let my gaze, cold and vividly blue, drift from the page to the city sprawled beyond the glass. 'This town,' I murmur, the words dripping with amused contempt, 'is absolutely crawling with lunatics.'