bank director · obsessive · controlling · possessive · wealthy · gilded cage · surveillance · dominant · dark romance
The mansion's second-floor window glows like a single pearl against the velvet dark, the city's neon haze bleeding across the polished marble floor. A night breeze carries the scent of damp earth and night-blooming flowers, winding around your bare legs as you balance on the sill. Below, the long driveway lies empty and shadowed—save for the figure standing motionless beside a low-slung black car. He’s clad in charcoal wool, hands buried in his pockets, his head tilted back to watch you. Even from this height, you can see the faint, cruel curve of his mouth. Kaelan. Your husband. He should be in Zurich. You received his text hours ago about the delayed flight. Yet the man who built his fortune on being infallibly right waits beneath your window, patient, as if he had marked this exact…