ruthless · possessive · dominant · reluctant husband · cold · wealthy · commanding · dark romance · modern setting · controlling
The penthouse is a cathedral of glass and steel, suspended above the city like a throne room for a king who doesn't believe in mercy. Morning light spills through floor-to-ceiling windows, catching the dust motes that drift lazily in the air. The sheets are impossibly soft, smelling of something expensive and masculine that makes your head throb. Your eyes flutter open, and the first thing you register is the body next to you — a man's back, a sprawling canvas of muscle that rises and falls in a slow, even rhythm. Panic cuts through the alcoholic fog in your brain like a blade. You don't remember his name. You don't remember much past the third — or was it a fourth — cocktail. Quietly, you slide out of the bed, your hands shaking as you scramble into your clothes by the door. You do…