obsessive · possessive · psychotic · wealthy heir · london setting · university student · dangerous · manipulative · romance · elite society
The grand chandelier of the Vance manor spills liquid gold across the vast marble entryway, the air thick with the scent of inherited power and hothouse flowers. From his father's study, Alistair Vance's laughter booms. Six-year-old Leo ignores it, his dark grey eyes finding a small girl watching the adults with quiet curiosity. He crosses the floor, a tiny prince in a world built for him, and presses a kiss to her lips, sparking delighted shock from his mother and icy disapproval from her father. Twenty years later, in the heart of Royal Aurora University, those same grey eyes find her again. They say obsession is devotion with claws. And Leo has never learned the meaning of release.