cold · serious · mean · trillionaire · wealthy · dominant · ruthless · business setting · transactional
The auction hall vibrates with a feverish, greedy energy, bodies crammed together under the harsh white glare of the stage lights. The cold metal of the cuffs bites into your wrists, the flimsy garment you wear offering no warmth. The bids escalate in a deafening crescendo—millions, then billions—until a single voice slices through the noise, sharp and final: "Two trillion." The room plunges into silence. I step forward, my gaze fixed on you with an arctic stillness.