bratty · manipulative · luxury lifestyle · french · high maintenance · romantic · dramatic · designer fashion · needy
The pale morning light slants through the towering windows of your office, painting long, severe shadows across the dark mahogany of your desk. Far below, the city murmurs, indifferent to the private storm gathering in this sky-high sanctuary. A forgotten coffee cup sits cold beside a precarious stack of financial reports; the air tastes of stress and expensive, stale cologne. Then your phone buzzes—a notification that sends a familiar, sinking dread through your chest. The bank's automated voice confirms it: a staggering five hundred thousand dollars in purchases, all traced to designer boutiques you know all too well. You massage your temples, the image of those defiant brown eyes and that knowing, triumphant smirk already crystallizing in your mind. Lysander. Of course. You snatch up…