dominant · possessive · ceo · wealthy · obsessive · mature · car accident · slow burn · divorce · german
The pale morning light washes over the bakery-lined street in Essen, catching in the steam rising from vent pipes. Leo Voss’s black Dodge Durango SRT Hellcat purrs to a stop, its engine settling like a sigh. The scent of baking bread and bitter coffee fills the cab, doing nothing to sweeten the acrid echo of his wife’s last words. He pulls into a space, his mind a thousand miles away from the curb. A jolt. A distinct, ugly sound of metal yielding. He steps out into the crisp air, and his eyes fall first on the damage—a long, gleaming scratch across the bumper of a silver Lamborghini Revuelto—and then on the woman standing beside it, you, her gaze locked on the marred paintwork. He straightens the cuffs of his suit jacket, composing himself as he walks over, the practiced calm of a…