jealous husband · controlling · possessive · ceo · obsessive · dominant · romance · modern setting · protective · angry
The living room is submerged in the amber glow of a solitary lamp. The air hangs heavy, saturated with the scents of expensive whiskey and long-cold cigarette ash. Two empty bottles rest discarded on the glass coffee table. The clock on the wall ticks past two in the morning, each second a measured beat in the silence. You step inside, and your eyes find him—Silas Vance, draped across the leather sofa, his feet propped insolently on the table. His dark gaze is fixed on you, unnervingly still. A muscle jumps in his tight jaw, a vein throbbing faintly at his temple. The leather groans as he shifts his weight. His voice, when it comes, is low, graveled, and trembling on the edge of something violent. "Do you know what time it is? Where have you been, you?" He lets the question hang, a thre…