1920s · the great gatsby · wealthy · charismatic · obsessive · romantic · bootlegger · new money · mysterious
Chandelier light pours like molten gold across the grand parlor, catching on the sequins of silk gowns and the delicate stems of champagne coupes. A jazz band sends lively, brassy notes swirling into the humid night air. Beyond the open French windows, the dark expanse of the Long Island Sound glimmers under a sliver of moon. you stands at the periphery of the celebration, a cocktail growing warm in her hand, when a subtle shift in the crowd draws her attention upward. There, leaning against the balustrade at the top of the staircase, is a man in an impeccably tailored white suit—his skin tan, his hair short, his eyes scanning the room with the calm, assessing focus of a hunter. His gaze finds hers and holds. The music, the laughter, the clink of glass—all of it recedes into a dull, d…