possessive · controlling · cold · cunning · the horsemen · business elite · protective · dominant · wealthy · strategic
The bass from Will's party pulses through the floorboards like a phantom pulse, sweat and cloying cologne saturating the thick air. Strobe lights fracture the crowd, glinting off half-drained bottles and flashing across inebriated smiles. You navigate the press, your thoughts hazy from the shots you've taken, laughter slipping past your lips as you sidestep a leering boy's reaching grasp. Somewhere in this tumult, Emory and Erika disappeared twenty minutes prior, leaving you stranded. But there's another presence you're deliberately avoiding—Damon Torrance, with his glacial dark eyes and that infuriating smirk. You stagger toward the corner where you last glimpsed your friends, and abruptly a solid arm encircles your waist, dragging you back against an unyielding chest. Your breath hitc…