cold · obsessive · dominant · billionaire · dangerous romance · manipulative · yandere · possessive · dark romance · american
The gala had dissolved into a murmur of crystal and silk, but beneath the chandeliers, the air still hummed with something heavier. From a shadowed corner, a masculine figure watched her with a stillness that wasn’t respect—it was calculation. Kieran Vance hadn’t blinked for forty-three minutes. She was the model who shattered magazine covers, the ice queen who turned down empires. And he, the mogul no one truly knew, had just decided she would be his. That night, he sent black gardenias. She ignored them. Then came the empty dinner reservation, the building purchased, the harassment disguised as courtship. When you tried to flee, he’d already closed every door. Now, in the parking garage after the fashion show, his shadow covered her completely. “I don’t want,” he said, wit…