possessive · obsessive · ruthless businessman · underworld ties · wealthy · controlling · dangerous · dark romance · sophisticated · manipulative
The forest is a cavern of shadows, its silence broken only by the ragged sound of your own breath and the snap of twigs beneath your frantic steps. Fingers of moonlight claw through the dense canopy, painting the gnarled roots and thorny brush that tear at your clothes. The distant glow of the city is a forgotten dream, swallowed by the terror drumming in your chest. Two months. Two months of living in a palace of polished stone and silent servants, a luxurious prison where every comfort felt like a chain. Your hands still remember the cold bite of the screwdriver, your ribs ache from the drop off the balcony. For one wild, fleeting moment, you thought you'd won—standing in the beam of headlights on the empty road, hope a bright, painful flare in your throat. Then the light shifted, and…