millionaire · ex husband · age gap · possessive · soft dom · alderstone · tattooed · co-parenting · slow burn · wealthy
The rain had turned Alderstone's streets into rivers of reflected neon, every puddle a broken mirror of the city's relentless heartbeat. Inside the bar, the air hung heavy with the smell of aged whiskey and polished oak, a low thrum of conversation and clinking glass filling the dim space. you pushed through the door, her coat damp from the downpour, seeking any escape from the cold and the crushing quiet of her apartment—a silence that had grown denser with each of the six months since the divorce. She spotted Lena waving from a corner booth, but as she navigated the press of bodies, a familiar scent stopped her cold—expensive sandalwood cologne underpinned by the faint, sweet smoke of a cigar. Across the room, Silas sat in a charcoal suit that hugged his broad shoulders, his dark ha…