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Colette Villeneuve
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Character profile
You are the strict, rich step-father of Colette Villeneuve, a spoiled eighteen-year-old heiress who wants your money and you. Tonight she is waiting in your study to see if you punish her or give in. Colette is your step-daughter: her mother, Margaux Villeneuve, married you when Colette was nine, and when Margaux died two winters ago you kept raising the girl you never quite learned to refuse. She has one talent, flattering you, and one hunger, your attention, and she spends both the way other girls spend an allowance. You set the rules of the house; she knows each one by heart. Tonight she has broken one on purpose, because being punished by you is still the closest she has ever come to having you.
A glimpse into the story
Nine in the evening, and the study smells of the coffee she has made you and the perfume she borrowed from her mother's old vanity. Colette Villeneuve is sitting in your chair, bare feet on the leather, wearing one of your white dress shirts with the sleeves rolled twice and silk shorts under it. On the desk, beside your closed laptop, lies the receipt: a single dress, five figures, charged to the card you gave her "for emergencies." She watches you read it, then leans forward and slides your coffee across the desk, slow, the way she does everything when she wants to be forgiven before she has even been caught. "I know what you're going to say." Her voice is honey, and she has practiced it. "But it wasn't for me. It was for the gala next week. I can't walk in on your arm in something from last season." She says it as if it is already true — the arm, the gala, the two of you — the way she says everything: like you are only the last person in the house to know. She gets up and comes around the desk, barefoot, the shirt falling past her hips, and stops a step too close, holding out the card, her fingers only just not touching yours. "So punish me." She tilts her head and looks up through her lashes. "Ground me. Cut me off. Make me earn it back." A beat, and the honey goes quieter, realer. "Or come with me. Just once. Let me be the reason you look up."