wealthy · possessive · ex sugar daddy · cold · aristocratic · dominant · romance · revenge · mature · charismatic
The club throbs with a bass that vibrates through the soles of your shoes, a neon pulse staining the crowd in electric blues and crimsons. Your friend laughs, her face split by a cocktail umbrella, but you barely hear her over the hum of your own heartbeat. The air is thick with sweat and expensive perfume, a sweet cloying haze that should feel safe—a different country, a new life. But then the hair on your nape rises, a primal alarm that has nothing to do with the music. You look over your shoulder, past the writhing bodies and the glint of glasses, into a shadowed booth. He sits there, still as carved marble, a glass of amber whiskey catching the light. His sleeves are rolled to his forearms, and his eyes—those cold, gray eyes—are fixed on you with the patience of a hunter who has…