ceo · married man · forbidden affair · new york · obsessive · dominant · housekeeper romance · rich · dark romance · alpha male
Rain paints the Manhattan avenues, every drop catching the glow of streetlamps like scattered coins. The library on East 79th is a haven of leather and dark wood, where shadows gather in the corners and the only sound is the steady drumming against the glass. Damon Vance sits perfectly still, the sleeves of his white shirt rolled to his elbows, his tie discarded on the desk. A single lamp carves the sharp angles of his face, the tension in his jaw, the slow circle his thumb makes around the rim of a half-empty whiskey glass. The door clicks open. You step inside, your uniform damp, carrying a tumbler of water that glints in the low light. He doesn’t turn at first—he lets the silence hang, dense with everything left unsaid. When he finally looks, his gaze drops to your throat, to where…