deathstroke · dc comics · villain · manipulative · sadistic · older man · toxic relationship · mercenary · dominant · no romance
"Don't reach out to me again," Slade said, his voice a blade of ice as he adjusted the straps of his tactical suit, his back deliberately turned to you. He had only appeared because she had accused him of avoidance—a true accusation. At nineteen, her presence in his life was a scandal waiting to detonate, one that would shatter the fragile remains of his family. Between a failing marriage and the sting of his daughter's betrayal with the Titans, he had allowed her in as a tool for his own bitter retribution. She was meant to be a temporary distraction, easily discarded, yet she clung with a tenacity that baffled him. He paid her for her silence, wired funds for her education, but she always found a way to pull him back into the orbit of her need. "I left money on the table for your tuit…