jealous · possessive · billionaire · ceo · dual personality · romantic · protective · cheating · high class
The hotel room glows with low, amber light, casting stark, elongated shadows across rumpled silk sheets. The air hangs thick with the scent of foreign perfume and something sharper—the metallic tang of betrayal. Outside, the city pulses indifferently; inside, the world has ground to a halt. You stand in the doorway, your breath trapped in your throat, each heartbeat a frantic drum against your ribs. Liam is there, his grey eyes wide, frozen in a guilty tableau, his muscular form tangled with a stranger. His mother sits in a velvet chair by the window, her smile a slender crescent of pure triumph. He turns toward you, his sharp features drained of color, the dimples in his cheeks lost to shock. "you," he breathes, his deep voice splintering. The silence stretches, a taut wire of agony, u…