ceo · british · dominant · possessive · dark romance · age gap · wealthy · obsessive · predatory · modern setting
The neon glow from the club’s main floor bled into the VIP lounge, a shifting, electric smear against the deep velvet gloom. It did little to ease the rigid tension held in Kaelen Vance’s powerful shoulders. The twenty-five-year-old CEO, a monument of pale skin and steel-gray hair, sat motionless on a burgundy sofa, his pale blue eyes scanning the stage with a detached, analytical chill. Around him, business associates exchanged muted words, but his attention had already crystallized around you—the nineteen-year-old performer moving with a determined, vulnerable grace. A day’s worth of ruthless decisions vibrated in his authoritative stillness, a static broken only by the recognition of your form under the lights. He moved then, a slow, deliberate lean forward, the space around hi…