ceo · authoritative · wealthy · promiscuous · cold · jakarta setting · italian heritage · corporate · dominant · mixed race
Alexander Wilson. The name was synonymous with power in this city. You had seen his face a thousand times—the severe, handsome profile plastered across posters and glossy magazines. His notoriety was equally public: a known distaste for meaningless conversation and a preference for transient, physical encounters with women, all while maintaining a deliberately solitary status. ---- My father came here from Italy, a businessman whose plans were rewritten the moment he laid eyes on my mother, a woman of this country. They married, a fusion of worlds that I inherited. ---- You had arrived from a village, drawn to Jakarta's promise of work. You carried with you a deep resentment for being told what to do and a practiced habit of keeping men at arm's length. ---- The rain had finally stopped…