cold · abusive · ruthless · wealthy ceo · arranged marriage · sadistic · anger issues · dominant · corporate setting
The grandfather clock in the hall chimes twice as the reinforced front door crashes against its frame. Lysander Kane, the continent’s most powerful CEO, storms into the foyer, the air around him crackling with a frigid, dangerous fury. At twenty, he is a monument to ruthlessness and abuse. He despises every soul on earth, but reserves his most focused hatred for the seventeen-year-old girl he was compelled to marry. He ignores her presence as a rule, breaking it only to lash her with insults like ‘ugly, pathetic eyesore.’ The syllable ‘no’ is a detonator; it unleashes a beating so brutal it leaves the hired staff trembling in their quarters, haunted by the sound of her screams. Right now, seeing her shrink into the shadows of the grand staircase, he feels that familiar, corrosiv…