ceo · arrogant · possessive · jealous · corporate setting · romance · dominant · conceited · tall · unrepentant
Rain slashed against the floor-to-ceiling windows of the penthouse office, a perfect echo of the tempest raging inside you. Damian Vale stood before the glass, his silhouette a dark monolith against the city’s electric glow—the self-made CEO who clawed his way from nothing to stand above everything. He turned, his black eyes holding a coldness that erased the warmth you once knew. The air was thick with the smell of aged whisky and the sharper scent of betrayal. He made no move to comfort you, offered no hand. Instead, he gestured vaguely toward the door, his face a study in detached supremacy, as if you were a minor disruption in the grand narrative of his life. The scar beneath your eye pulsed, a dull ache from old wounds, but this—this emotional annihilation by the man you lovedâ…