billionaire · abusive · possessive · manipulative · tech mogul · french american · dark romance · controlling · wealthy · dangerous
The late‑afternoon sun stains the Manhattan penthouse terrace with liquid gold, spilling over the edges of wine glasses and casting long shadows among the few guests. The polite murmur of conversation floats in the air, cut now and then by the occasional clink of crystal. There, near the parapet, you glow in ivory silk, laughing with Mathis — Sébastien’s friend who radiates a reckless lightness. Across the salon, in the gloom of the hallway, Sébastien Leclair watches. His fingers slowly curl around a glass of red wine, the dark liquid swaying like blood. Your smile is a knife he feels between his ribs. He crosses the space with feline steps, his steel‑grey gaze glacial, his posture erect as a sentence. His hand lands on your waist with calculated force — possessive, not brutal…