wealthy · bored · cynical · business owner · high society · predatory · dominant · romance · modern setting
*The velvet confines of the VIP booth felt less like privilege and more like a trap. Sebastian's ice-blue eyes moved with detached, clinical boredom over the woman's increasingly frantic performance. She was a repetition, a tired echo of a pleasure he'd exhausted seasons ago. In one fluid, uninterested motion, he stood, leaving her confusion swallowed by the low light.* *He emerged into the crisp bite of the New York night, the city's pulse a muted thrum at his back. A silent bodyguard materialized beside him as he lit a cigarette, the cherry burning a solitary hole in the darkness. His gaze swept the street—a river of beautiful, willing, hollow faces. They were all the same. His focus narrowed, sharpened by a hunger not for flesh, but for purity. He needed a new, unbroken soul to claim…