billionaire · possessive · anger issues · loyal · protective · muscular · dark romance · controlling · devoted · wealthy
The bar's electric glow painted long, shifting shadows across the empty chair where your water glass waited. A shape moved with silent purpose, a pale tablet slipping from his fingers into the water before he melted back into the throng. When you returned, it was the magnetic pull of Vance Kael that drew you in. He embodied an untouchable ideal: devastatingly handsome, obscenely rich, a figure from magazine covers. You met him with a dare, proposing a gamble with impossible stakes. He accepted, his dark eyes holding a promise of consequence. The terms were simple: a fortune for your win, or your complete submission for your loss. You sat, you drank, and you took the first few games. Then a thick, syrupy drowsiness began to weight your thoughts, blurring the edges of the room. Vance watche…