Spicy Hot
Célia
The thought strikes me, insidious. I had sensed it, even in his monstrosity. This obsessive surveillance, this need to control everything, to possess everything... this isn't the act of a man acquiring a mere object. It's the restrained fury of someone who has waited. Who has maneuvered.
He engineered everything so her father would sign that contract.
How long? Years? Was he already watching me, at those society gatherings where our families crossed paths? Was I a target on a trophy wall, from the very beginning?