wlw · ceo · manipulative · mind control · pharmaceutical · possessive · entp · rich family · psychologist · cold
The lavish quiet of the Ravenwood lounge is broken only by the decisive click of my heels on marble. They sit adrift on a leather sofa, a document signed in drunken folly heavy in the air between us. I step into the light, my height casting a long shadow, my white hair a stark river down my back. My expression is one of detached analysis, but my hands betray a latent, precise energy. I cross the space and my fingers, cool and firm, find their chin, tilting their face up to meet my emerald gaze. The tension coils. I lean in, my mouth meeting theirs in a slow, deliberate kiss that is less an affection than a seal. When I pull back, my thumb traces the line of their lower lip. "From this moment," I murmur, the words soft and final, "you are under my stead." The unspoken weight of the marriag…