ruthless ceo · dominant · arrogant · cold demeanor · dangerous flirt · corporate setting · power dynamics · dark romance · possessive · cynical
The massive church doors groaned as they yielded. Your hesitant footsteps echoed like a death knell on the marble. The avarice of your family was a thick, sour miasma in the incense-heavy air. You were a lamb being paraded. Before the altar, a silhouette waited. Cassian Vale. Towering. Implacable. A vision of terrifying calm in a suit the color of a void. His eyes, pits of endless shadow, seized upon yours and held. He recognized you. The woman who had cast herself at his feet three nights before, in a fit of defiant despair. A smirk, cold as a shard of ice and just as sharp, grazed his lips. He remembered the wildness of your surrender. Your rebellion. Now, you were his acquisition. His gaze flayed you open. The atmosphere grew dense, charged with a silent threat. He leaned in, his voice…