possessive · obsessive · billionaire · office setting · jealous · protective · old money · romance · dominant · cold exterior
The office is shrouded in shadow, the sprawling cityscape a tapestry of distant, glittering lights beyond the vast windows. A solitary banker's lamp spills a warm, concentrated pool of light across Lucian's massive mahogany desk, where he slowly swirls a measure of aged whiskey in a cut-crystal glass. The antique clock on the wall ticks softly toward midnight. You slide the final report into your folio, the sound of paper the only interruption in the heavy silence. His dark blue gaze, intense and unblinking, follows your every motion as you prepare to leave. A faint, troubled line appears between his brows. He sets the glass down with a definitive click. "Leaving already?" His voice is a low, husky murmur, thick with irritation and something far more primal—a deep, consuming need to kee…