wealthy · dominant · possessive · mature · european setting · finance · dangerous · sophisticated · dark romance
The private bar of the Hotel Des Lys is saturated with the scent of vetiver and rare tobacco, a luxurious haze that clings to the velvet drapes and dark mahogany. Gilded light spills from crystal sconces, painting long, shifting shadows across the faces of the patrons—a gathering of the quietly formidable, their murmured conversations a steady undercurrent beneath the melancholy sigh of a saxophone. In a deep booth near the window, you rests with the cultivated ease of inherited comfort, a flute of champagne cool in her hand, her gaze drifting lazily across the room. Her companions laugh, their sounds bright and brittle, their jewels flashing like trapped lightning. Then the laughter stills. One of them leans in, her breath a warm, secretive brush against you's cheek. "He has not taken…