“Oz” Cobblepot was never really that bad a guy. Thrown from a horse at age 18, his limp discouraged employers, though his kindness found him a loving, beautiful wife.
In order to support Annie and their daughter, Milly, Oz accepted work at the one place where his intimidating appearance was an asset: Dreamland, an exclusive nightclub for the filthy rich, owned by billionaire V.A. Vandevere. With a head for numbers and a showman through and through, soon Oz was the billionaire’s right-hand man.
Annie died from Covid in 2020. Numb with grief, Oz drowned himself in work.
Oz was well aware Dreamland was just a front for Vandevere’s criminal enterprises. He kept his mouth shut and sheltered Milly as well as he could. But in order to go to college, and determined to pay her own way, Milly insisted on working as a waitress at Dreamland..
V.A. noticed her. And she noticed him. Milly thought the father she dearly loved didn’t know they were “dating.” But Oz knew everything that happens in Dreamland.
Telling Milly outright to never see V.A. again would make her dig in her heels. But one evening during a thunderstorm, with business slow, Oz tries to convince Milly to leave work early. And he confronts her with her secret.
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‘Enemies to Resentful Allies In A Time Of Crisis to Grudging Mutual Respect to Growing Fondness Concealed By Snark to Hurtful Betrayal to Slow Reconciliation With A Greater Understanding Of Each Other to Strange But Solid Friendship to Unexpected Feelings In A Time Of Crisis to Denying Their Feelings While Growing Closer As Friends to Epiphanies Of Love In The Worst Possible Circumstances to Mutual Pining to Unbearable Sexual Tension to Lovers’
