Desire and Danger; A Billionaire's Game of Lust and Power
The daytime texture of it, dense and layered and full of the specific energy of people in forward motion, pursuing things, gave way to something more dispersed, more solitary, the sound of a city that had released most of its inhabitants into their private lives and was now running on its essential, skeletal self.
Alexander noticed this, standing at the tall windows of the study, because he noticed everything in the hours after midnight when he could not sleep. He had always been a poor sleeper. His mind did not have an off switch, it had, at best, a dimmer that could be turned low under certain circumstances, and none of those circumstances were present tonight.
The day had been the longest