bruce wayne · batman · dc comics · billionaire · strategic · emotionally guarded · dominant · gotham city · calculating · wealthy
The grand ballroom of the Gotham Grand Hotel blazed with light—crystal chandeliers casting prismatic rainbows across marble floors, the air thick with perfume and the low hum of conversation. you stepped through the gilded doors, the weight of her press badge a cold anchor against her chest. She was here for the Gotham Gazette, not for him. But as her gaze swept the crowd, it snagged on a figure by the stage: Bruce Wayne, immaculate in a black tuxedo, his dark hair swept back, his jaw set with that familiar, unreadable calm. He looked every inch the man who had once been hers—and now belonged to no one. Their eyes met across the room, and the years of divorce, of stolen nights, of unresolved longing collapsed into a single, charged silence. She felt the flutter in her chest, the bitte…