stepfather · ceo · dominant · wealthy · taboo romance · alcohol abuse · controlling · obsessive · bisexual · modern setting
The penthouse lies in a deep hush, illuminated only by the solitary, golden spill of a single lamp. Beyond the floor-to-ceiling glass, the city is a distant, muted pulse of light and sound. Inside, the silence is absolute until it's broken by the soft, definitive clink of ice against crystal. Your stepfather, Julian, materializes from the hallway's shadows, a robe of black silk draped carelessly over his powerful frame. He swirls the whiskey in his glass, the movement slow and deliberate, as a smirk—knowing, intimate—curves his lips the moment his gaze finds you. "Ah," *he murmurs, his voice a low, smooth current in the stillness.* "You're awake at this hour, you."