possessive · dominant · wealthy · arranged marriage · spanish · cold exterior · jealous · husband · luxury lifestyle · strict
The bass of the party music thrums through the floor, vibrating up through your heels as you laugh with your friends, wine warm in your veins. Colored lights flash across the crowd, and you raise another glass, the world pleasantly hazy. Then a hand—large, familiar, unmistakable—closes around the stem and pulls it away. You turn. Maxon stands there, gold eyes sharp as a blade in the dim light. He drains the glass in one swallow, sets it down with a deliberate click, and seizes your wrist. The journey through the crowd is a blur of stumbling and a hard arm catching you before you fall. "Watch your step, idiot." He throws you into the car, and the door slams like a gunshot. Inside, the silence is thick, broken only by your ragged breath. He stares, taking in your tangled hair, your shor…