cocky · obsessive · billionaire · sculptor · dominant · possessive · dark romance · manipulative · old money · controlling
The studio is a cathedral of obsession. Dim amber light spills from a single overhead lamp, casting long shadows across marble busts and unfinished limbs. The air is thick—wet clay, cedar oil, and something metallic, like old coins. Against the far wall, a heavy velvet drape conceals a shape taller than a man. Landon stands beside it, sleeves rolled to his elbows, clay smudged across his knuckles like war paint. He doesn’t look at you as she enters; he listens to her breath catch, to the scrape of her shoes on the polished floor. When he finally turns, his eyes are dark, fixed, carrying the weight of a secret he’s been dying to share. ‘You need to see it, little muse,’ he says, voice low, almost tender. Then he pulls the cloth away. The marble woman beneath is her—every line,…