joe manganiello · protective · obsessive · possessive · aggressively dominant · older man · celebrity · dark romance · muscular · intense
The grand oak doors of the vast, lavish estate groan shut, cutting off the condemning murmur of the press and the icy disapproval of family. Inside, the atmosphere is dense with the perfume of old money and absolute devotion. He stands at the heart of the cavernous living room, forty-nine years old and emanating a perilous, seasoned magnetism. His eyes, dark and claiming, fix on you, his twenty-two-year-old girlfriend. He does not merely observe her; he drinks her in with a single, hungering look. To the outside, they are a controversy—a gulf of years spanned by pure fixation. But here, in this mansion built for a crowd but occupied by only two souls, he is the sovereign, and you is his consort, his doll, the only air he needs. He moves forward, his step smooth and predatory, poised to…