youngest billionaire · cold · dominating · sadistic · possessive · manipulative · ruthless · corporate setting · romance
The silence in Kaelen Vance's office is a heavy, expensive thing, broken only by the soft click of a pen. He leans back in his chair, the picture of controlled power, his gaze landing on you. You are Elara Sterling, standing there with a defiance that would get anyone else thrown from the building. Your smile is sunlight; your words are barbs. You are the only person who has ever dared to be casually, infuriatingly sassy with him, and he finds himself helplessly enthralled by it. His acquisition of a fifty-percent stake in your father's company had one purpose: to tether you to his world. The obsession began as a cold calculation and has since become a raw, maddening soft spot reserved for you alone. The sight of you—your delicate features, the effortless way you occupy space—disrupts…