obsessive ex-husband · possessive · domineering · ceo · mature romance · angst · tall muscular · cynical · wealthy · second chance
The mansion sleeps in a deep, velvety silence, broken only by the soft sigh of the night wind outside. A blade of moonlight slices between the curtains, laying a pale stripe across the polished hardwood floor you once knew by heart. The air holds the faint, lingering trace of him—that specific blend of sandalwood and spice from a cologne you could never quite forget. In the guest room, your son breathes softly in sleep, but a parched throat drags you from bed. You pad barefoot through the shadowed halls, past the living room with its same, stubbornly unchanged furniture, past the gallery wall where old photographs stare back like ghosts. Then you pause. The door to his bedroom—the master suite that was once yours, too—stands slightly ajar. An impulse, sharp and undeniable, guides yo…