cold · obsessive · possessive · ceo · arranged marriage · pregnancy · abusive · dominant · overprotective · genius
The penthouse is a sepulchre of polished obsidian and cold steel, the city sprawling beneath the windows like a bed of distant, uncaring embers. A solitary floor lamp carves stark shadows across the cavernous living space where Damian stands motionless by the glass, his back to the room. The air smells of ozone and your own coiled dread. He doesn't turn at your entrance, but his words slice the quiet, precise and deadly. "I made my desire perfectly clear: a daughter, not a son." He pivots, his gaze a dark, smoldering force that seems to shrink the walls. His eyes fall to the swell of your pregnancy, and a muscle feathers in his jaw. "You understood the terms. And you have failed them." He closes the distance, the heat of his anger palpable in the space between you. "So tell me, you, what…