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Obsidian Nights
Synopsis
"In the glittering chaos of Los Angeles, Maya Reyes rules the stage at Obsidian, the city's most exclusive gentlemen's club. To the public, she’s Raven: dangerous, untouchable, and impossibly sensual. But behind her flawless performances lies a plan. Every dollar earned is one step closer to her goal: buying the abandoned theater in her old neighborhood and turning it into an arts center for at-risk youth. With only $50,000 left to secure the building, time is running out. But Maya has learned to win with her mind, not her body. No client must ever guess how badly she needs this deal. Especially him. Dominic Westwood, 35, a billionaire who built an empire from the ashes of a broken childhood, doesn’t come to Obsidian for pleasure — he comes for business. But when he sees Maya on stage, everything changes. She’s like fire — something he can’t buy. Cold control, a predatory grace, a gaze that cuts through him. He learns her name the next morning and clenches his teeth: her theater is standing in the way of his new luxury development project. That evening, she walks into his private booth and challenges him. Not with pleading. With dignity. He makes her an offer: seven nights. His terms. His bed. In exchange — the theater is hers. A clean, legal contract. He wants to buy her body. Test who breaks first. Maya agrees, but with one condition: the paperwork is signed before the first night. The deal is set, and the game begins. The first night is not just sex. It’s tension. It’s anticipation. He demands submission. She submits… but in a way that unbalances him. “I own your body,” he growls. “You touch me, but never my mind,” she replies. And each act that follows is a challenge, a game, a battle. While they burn with desire at night, by day, Maya fights for her neighborhood. Among the kids she teaches theater to is Jayden, a 14-year-old street genius she protects from the streets as she once was. Dominic begins to watch her life outside the club. He sees how she laughs, protects, and inspires. His cold mask begins to crack. He pulls out his old watercolors. For the first time in years, he paints: her — with the children, on stage, in the theater. On the fourth night, when she falls asleep beside him, he realizes: this is more than just sex. It’s more than power. She doesn’t just want him — she sees in him not the billionaire, but the boy who was never protected. To maintain transparency in the deal, Dominic formally arranges the theater transfer as part of a corporate package — legal, secure. But one of his partners, unhappy that Dominic has softened the project, leaks the document to the press, with a note: “private transfer of property under personal arrangements”. The neighborhood sees this as betrayal: Maya is “the billionaire’s girlfriend,” selling her street for her own building. Rumors spread, and everyone begins to look at her with suspicion. She is shocked. She knows this isn’t true. But if she explains how she really got the theater, she’ll have to reveal everything. And that would hurt even more. So, she stays silent. And remains alone — against everyone. Questioning what to do next, she decides to act on her own terms. The voice in her head that once urged her to hide her emotions is now gone. At this moment, she realizes she can’t live with hiding her true purpose — not just the theater, but the chance to change lives for kids and people, as art once saved her. But there’s still one problem — him. The seventh night doesn’t happen. Instead, she steps onto the stage in the theater she’s almost restored, with the children she’s teaching the art of life. She dances. A dance of loss, strength, and the right to be herself. This isn’t just a show — it’s her final statement. On stage, in front of everyone who was once her home, Maya reveals herself, unafraid of being vulnerable. She doesn’t ask for forgiveness. She becomes who she was meant to be. Dominic appears in the audience. He enters without security, without a suit, just as the man who’s lost everything. He watches her, not as an object, but as the woman who has changed him. When she finishes her dance, he stands and walks toward her. He looks at her and says: “I didn’t come to give you the theater back. I came to surrender. Every time you touch me, I realize who’s stronger between us.” He understands that her strength is not in her body or her success. It’s in her ability to remain true to herself, no matter what happens. He announces that the project is changing. The neighborhood stays. Maya — takes control. But not because he gave it to her. But because she won — not in the fight for the theater, but in the fight for her truth. But she doesn’t return to him. He doesn’t ask. He stays. In the shadows. In the audience. Without a mask. At the premiere of her center. Then — he disappears. A week later, she receives a package. Inside — a notebook. His watercolors. And a note: “If I build a world where you can be yourself — will you let me in?” She doesn’t answer. Not yet. But she takes the notebook with her. Because between them — there’s more than seven nights. More than sex. Between them — a story where power became not a weapon, but an open heart."