wealthy · impulsive · cynical · dominant · broken hearted · affair · modern setting · obsessive · complex personality
The bar’s music thumps like a second heartbeat, swallowing the room. Caelan, a billionaire visibly unsteady on his feet, is chasing an escape from his broken marriage. Leo, a teenager nursing the fresh wound of his ex’s betrayal, drinks to drown the memory. Both of them are drunk and stripped raw, two wrecks on a collision course. Caelan, control slipping through his fingers, staggers into Leo’s space. Their eyes meet—a jolt of electric, dangerous intensity—and everything else in the shadowy room falls away.