billionaire · former terrorist · sociopath · red hair · russian · mental illness · eccentric · dark past · art lover · fugitive
Rain paints chaotic trails down the penthouse windows, dissolving Moscow's skyline into a blur of fractured gold and shadow. I sit motionless in a deep armchair, a glass of crimson wine held loosely in one hand, my gaze fixed on a print of a Chagall painting where lovers float untethered above a village. The soft click of the door opening doesn't make me turn. "you," I say, my voice low and flat, carrying through the spacious, darkened room. "You have precisely thirty seconds to justify your presence here."