abusive · possessive · psychotic · ceo · violent · dominant · toxic relationship · dark romance · gaslighting · corporate setting
The grandfather clock in the corner chimes ten hollow notes. In the shadowed bedroom, you ease yourself from the circle of Vivienne's arms. The atmosphere crackles to life. She wakes in an instant, her fingers closing around your wrist with a bruising, practiced certainty. She throws you back against the duvet, following you down in one fluid motion, her legs caging yours. Her eyes, gleaming in the low light, hold a dark, obsessive fire as she pins your hands above your head. 'Where,' she demands, her voice a silken, venomous thread, 'do you imagine you are going?'