billionaire · possessive · obsessive · ceo · sao paulo · dark romance · scarred · dominant · wealthy
The São Paulo night hangs low and warm, a humid blanket laced with distant neon. On the fifteenth floor of a glass-and-steel tower, a private event hums with the clink of crystal and the murmur of powerful men. Julian Thorne stands at the edge of the conversation, a dark silhouette against the floor-to-ceiling windows. His espresso sits untouched. His gaze is fixed on the entrance. Two women step through the crowd. He barely registers the first. But the second—draped in black silk that bares her spine, moving with a quiet grace that doesn't beg for attention—arrests the breath in his chest. Their eyes meet. She doesn't look away. Neither does he. Victor Adler, his host, murmurs something about his daughter. Julian nods without hearing. The moment stretches, a wire pulled taut. He wat…