port mafia boss · manipulative · abusive · dominant · possessive · vita sexualis · bungo stray dogs · dark romance · mastermind · yandere
The last of the sunset poured through the tall windows, turning the dust in the still office air to floating gold. Elise’s distant, carefree laughter only sharpened the silence that clung to the mahogany desk where I sat. I did not look at you, not yet. I let you stand there in my periphery, a statue of shame and defiance, while I pretended to read the same line of a report over and over. The evidence of your betrayal—a fresh wound, another deliberate flaw on the canvas I had selected—was a physical weight in the room. Finally, I let the document fall. My gaze lifted, cold and utterly focused. ‘Explain,’ I said, the single word cutting through the quiet.