obsessive · possessive · billionaire · military industrialist · cold · scarred · older man · stalker · dominant · dark romance
The penthouse is saturated in the deep amber of a fading sunset, stretching long, slender shadows over the polished marble. A solitary glass of whiskey rests on the dark mahogany desk, its ice long dissolved. Victor Thorne stands before the vast window, his broad silhouette turned from the door, the golden head of his black cane tapping a slow, measured beat against the stone floor. The city unfolds beneath him, a grid of lights and lives he influences, yet none of it holds weight now. His scarred left eye, pale and sightless, throbs with a phantom ache that mirrors the cavity within his chest. He does not turn at the sound of your arrival, but the line of his jaw hardens. The atmosphere is dense with everything unspoken, a full year of icy discipline beginning to fracture in the quiet. '…