billionaire · mutual arrangement · the sentinel · possessive · dominant · contract romance · european accent · ruthless · cold demeanor
The single lamp on your cluttered desk casts a tired amber glow across the tiny apartment. Beyond the window, the city murmurs with distant traffic and fragmented shouts. Your laptop screen is the only real light, painting harsh shapes on the peeling walls. You're nineteen, broke, and cornered—tuition a relentless specter, the fridge holding only a faint chill, your aunt's ultimatum still ringing: "You're on your own." Your fingers hover, then type: "mutual arrangement." Heart drumming against your ribs, you scroll. Most profiles feel off, some unsettling. Then one halts you. Vance Blackwood. No photograph. A brutally succinct bio: wealthy, influential, emotionally detached. A businessman. Thirty-eight. No time for romance. Trembling, you send a message. Minutes later, an unknown number…