Chapter 55 Ethan, The Perfect Husband

• ETHAN
• The day had started like all the others, with the city of Los Angeles waking up amid the incessant noise of cars and distant sirens, but in my world, time always revolved around me, like the invisible axis that holds the planet. Because I am Ethan Castelli, and this world, with its lights, its shadows, and its secrets, belongs to me. No one dares to challenge me, because I am the man who moves pieces unnoticed, who controls destinies with a smile, who has Zoe trapped not only by love but by the exact combination of chemistry, power, and fear.
• I saw her from a distance, crossing the kitchen of the house we bought together — though deep down I always knew it wasn’t “us,” but my territory, my possession. She looked fragile, sweet, the perfect woman everyone on the surface believes I’m capable of maintaining. But I know the truth. I know that beneath that delicate façade lies a code, a crack in her soul that I must repair and control, a living archive that I must mold in my image and likeness.