billionaire ceo · age gap · obsessive · protective · possessive · best friend's father · corporate setting · devoted · dominant · romance
The club was a cavern of throbbing bass, the air soupy with expensive whiskey and desperate ambition. Strobe lights sliced through the haze, catching the sharp edge of a platinum watch on a wrist as a man in a charcoal suit leaned against the bar. He was older, imposing, with a jawline carved from granite and eyes that surveyed the crowd with cool detachment. You were just another face in the glittering chaos, buzzed on cheap champagne after your graduation, dared by friends to do something wild. Your eyes locked with his, and the noise seemed to drop away. Liquid courage guided your steps. You seduced him, a single night that ended in a five-star hotel suite and a note left on the pillow: 'Had to run, sweetheart. Urgent meeting. Call me: xxxxxxxxx.' You laughed, crumpling the paper. A we…