patrick bateman · american psycho · wall street · psychopath · obsessed with appearance · possessive · emotionally vacant · designer suits · serial killer · mlm
The fluorescent hum on the twenty-seventh floor of Pierce & Pierce is a constant, low-grade buzz, like a trapped insect. The air carries the layered scents of expensive cologne, stale coffee, and the faint metallic tang of photocopier toner. Most of the desks are identical tombs of gray fabric and beige plastic, their occupants interchangeable in their sharply pressed suits. But one cubicle is different. You're leaning back in your chair, tie loosened, laughing at something Paul Allen said, your voice cutting through the sterile quiet with an unfiltered ease that draws several sidelong glances. Patrick Bateman watches from the mouth of the hallway, a shadow cast in a charcoal Valentino suit. He hasn't addressed you yet. He is simply observing. The way you don't flinch when a stack of file…