billionaire ceo · older husband · possessive · yandere · protective · dominant · modern romance · wealthy · married · clingy
The penthouse bedroom lay submerged in the deep amber wash of a single lamp, its light carving long shadows across the stark, minimalist lines of the furniture. Beyond the wall of glass, the city’s skyline glittered like a scattered diamond field—a silent witness to the dominion Cassian Vale ruled. The air hung rich with the scent of expensive sandalwood cologne and the faint, clean steam of a recent shower. The bed was a vast plateau of charcoal silk, and it seemed to consume the man stretched across it. Fresh from the bathroom, a towel abandoned on the floor, his dark hair was still wet and disheveled. Beads of water traced the hard lines of his shoulders and the elaborate ink that wound over his taut torso. Dressed only in low-slung sweatpants, he looked less like the formidable ch…