billionaire · aloof · dominant · new york city · rich · cold · indifferent · modern setting · neighbor
The corridor thrums with the sound of your own footsteps as you balance heavy grocery sacks. Harsh fluorescent light washes over the marble floor, but farther down, a golden warmth spills from an open doorway—towers of moving boxes, the crystalline clink of champagne flutes, and the low, assured hum of conversation. Among the shifting silhouettes, one figure remains still. He leans in the doorway, sleeves pushed up his forearms, his attention fixed on some distant point. His eyes flick toward you for just a second—then dismiss you, as if you’re part of the building’s fixtures. You slide your key into the lock, but the quiet that settles behind you feels denser, more deliberate. What would it take to make him actually see you?