LOGINThirteen years ago, a single choice shattered their lives. Now, Aidan Vance is the king of Manhattan, and Kyle is an artist painting his pain in strokes of shadow and light. When fate forces them back into each other's orbit, the air between them crackles with a tension that neither can ignore. Aidan wants redemption; Kyle wants to forget. But as Aidan’s protection turns into an all-consuming fixation, they find themselves trapped in a web of secrets and unspoken desires. In a world of high-stakes business and underground art galleries, they will learn that the truth is more brutal than any canvas and that some obsessions never truly fade.
View MoreThe Egyptian silk sheet was a mess across the king-size bed. In the air lingered that typical trail of sex, sweat, and an expensive perfume that seemed to seep into the walls of the twentieth floor.
Beside me, the woman whose name I had to make an extra effort to remember,maybe Chloe or Claire,breathed deeply, her chest rising and falling in the rhythm of someone who had just reached the peak. She was flawless. The kind of perfection that money and an heir’s last name attract without any real effort required. Bringing a woman like her to my Upper East Side apartment had been a purely mechanical task. A longer gaze in the right lounge, a half-smile, and the keys to the Mercedes left on the marble counter. They always come. They always want to be part of Aidan Vance’s world. And she was good, I have to admit. Precise movements, commitment, and an audacity that would make any man beg for more. I made sure she got there,it’s a matter of honor, or perhaps ego. I like being the best at everything I do, and that includes making sure whoever occupies my bed leaves convinced they’ve lived the best night of their life. “That was… surreal, Aidan.” She whispered, her voice hoarse, before getting up and walking toward the marble bathroom. “I know. You were incredible.” I replied, using my best tone of voice and the smile I had already perfected. I heard the sound of water filling the bathtub. The moment the door closed, my smile collapsed instantly. The golden lie. I was exhausted, but not in the right way. My body relaxed against the mattress, yet my mind was racing at full speed, screaming the truth I tried to drown in luxury: I had faked it again. Once more, I performed the perfect climax, the well-timed moans, and the way I gripped her hips. All so she would feel like the most desired woman in the world. But inside? A cold emptiness. Nothing. I’m twenty-eight years old and I own everything money can buy. The Vance name opens doors most people don’t even know exist. I have the physique, the cars, and the respect of the market. But complete satisfaction is the only luxury my bank balance cannot purchase. The reason has a name, a date, and a scene that no five-hundred-dollar-an-hour therapy has managed to erase. It all goes back to that afternoon thirteen years ago. I was a fifteen-year-old teenager trying to prove a courage I didn’t possess. It wasn’t in a nice place, but in the cold half-light of an abandoned building a concrete skeleton where what I did and what I allowed to happen became my life sentence. Guilt is a parasite that feeds on any trace of pleasure. I’ve tried everything. Beautiful women, models, intellectuals. I even tried men once, in a moment of desperation to feel *anything*. It was a quick encounter in a private club. The result? Worse. An apathy bordering on discouragement,not because of the act itself, but because even that didn’t fill the hole I had dug for myself. The price of that afternoon in the abandoned building is this: being the perfect lover to hide the hollow man I’ve become. The bathroom door opened, releasing a warm mist scented with sandalwood. She stood in the doorway, her skin damp and glistening under the light, naked and completely at ease. Her look was that of someone who wanted another round. “The water’s perfect, Aidan.” She said, tilting her head in a way she thought was irresistible. “But the tub is way too big for just one person. Coming?” I felt the weight of mental exhaustion, but the “character” took control. I would never deny her this. I don’t deny pleasure to anyone who’s in my bed,it’s my way of serving my sentence. Being the master of other people’s satisfaction is the only mask I have left. I threw the sheet aside and stood up, letting her see the body I had sculpted like armor. “You’re insatiable.” I said, forcing a spark of desire into my eyes as I walked toward her. I would go. I would play my role perfectly. I would make her scream my name again. And in the end, I would still be the only one there feeling absolutely nothing."It's just up there." He murmured, pointing toward the peeling facade of the building I already recognized from a distance. I said nothing. I just continued alongside him, feeling the weight of the silence and the electricity of our proximity, ready to enter the heart of the hell I had helped create. On the way, the silence was broken by his voice, a bit lower, carrying a hesitation I didn't expect. "I don't usually do this." He whispered, without looking at me. "Bringing clients to my place. It’s against my rule." I knew what that meant. He was setting a boundary, perhaps testing if I was dangerous or signaling that breaking the rule would come with a price. I knew he was doing it for the extra cash I could offer, for the security my expensive suit seemed to promise, but I decided not to treat it as a transaction in that moment. "I promise I’ll behave." I replied, trying to keep my voice soft, almost welcoming. He stopped for a second, turned to me, and gave a hal
The contrast was obscene: the Nappa leather, the carbon fiber dashboard, and beside me, a young man whose clothes smelled of despair and whose life I helped shatter. The silence in the car was tense, charged with an electric expectation. Kyle didn't waste time. He knew what I wanted, and he needed what I had in my pocket. As he leaned toward me, my mind had one last flash of that abandoned building, of Jason and Alexander laughing, of fifteen-year-old Kyle begging please. The shock of the memory merged with my current lust, creating an explosive mix that made my hands tremble on the steering wheel. "You're too tense." He murmured, his cold hand sliding up my thigh, nimble fingers already seeking the button of my pants. "I'll take care of that." I closed my eyes when I heard the sound of the zipper opening. The outside world vanished. The law, ethics, the Vance empire, and the therapist's advice... everything was swallowed by the darkness of that backseat. I was about to h
The muffled thumping of electronic beats from the strip club still reverberated in my ears when the heavy metal door closed behind me. The Manhattan night was humid, the asphalt glistening under the dim light of a flickering streetlamp, but I could barely focus my vision. The whiskey I’d downed inside flowed like slow fire through my veins, numbing my senses and turning my steps into heavy, imprecise movements. I walked toward my car, purposefully parked on the same dark, secluded street as last time. I fought it. I swear I fought every instinct in my body not to come back here. For the past few days, Dr. Li’s words echoed in my mind like a warning mantra: "You cannot cure him to cure yourself." She was right. I had already ruined Kyle’s life thirteen years ago; turning him into my private addiction now was just a more refined form of abuse. I had decided to leave him alone, even if this void in my chest was killing me, even if the frustration of feeling nothing with anyone
Dr. Li kept her eyes fixed on mine, not judging, just waiting. The silence in the office felt like a living entity, heavy, ready to absorb what I was about to expel. "I wasn't a monster when I started." my voice came out as a dry whisper. "I was just a rich, bored kid, desperate to belong to the 'strong' group. Alexander, Jason, and the others... we thought the world was our playground. And Kyle... he was just a boy who crossed our path at the wrong time." The narrative flowed out of me like a poison I had held in my stomach for over a decade. I described the abandoned building, the smell of mold and dust, and how the "bad joke" escalated into something dark and violent. I told someone about the first time Kyle was forced to serve us, and how, on that day, something in me snapped and connected to him in a twisted way. "I destroyed him, Doctor. We destroyed him. And the cruelest irony is that, by doing so, I condemned my own body. Since that day, I’ve never been able to feel

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