The Therapist’s Experiment - Ethan Cole never believed in therapy. Raised by a hardened father who saw emotions as a weakness, he spent his life suppressing his own needs, resigning himself to a stagnant marriage and a career that barely kept him engaged. But when his wife grows distant, leaving him feeling invisible in his own home, he turns to an unexpected source for help: Dr. Vivienne Blackwell. From the moment he steps into her office, Ethan senses something different about her. Unlike other therapists, she isn’t cold, clinical, or detached. She is intoxicating, her presence magnetic, her gaze piercing through his carefully constructed walls with ease. With every session, she peels back the layers of his insecurities, drawing him deeper into a twisted world where boundaries blur, and morality is nothing more than an abstract concept. Vivienne doesn’t just listen—she devours. She feeds on his secrets, his frustrations, his unspoken desires, using them like instruments in a symphony she conducts with chilling precision. Under her influence, Ethan begins to question everything—his marriage, his past, his very sense of self. She teaches him that satisfaction is a science, a formula he has been following incorrectly his entire life. And with her guidance, she promises to show him the truth—but at a cost he doesn’t yet understand. What starts as therapy quickly becomes something else. Ethan finds himself obsessed. Their sessions become a twisted game of control, seduction, and submission, with Vivienne tightening the noose around him, whispering promises of liberation while secretly ensuring his destruction. One by one, she strips him of his old life—his wife, his job, his dignity—until he has nowhere left to turn but her. But Ethan isn’t alone. He soon discovers that he is just one of many men who have fallen victim to Vivienne’s web. She has ruined marriages, careers, entire lives—all under the guise of “therapy.” And the worst part? None of them saw it coming until it was too late. Then Ethan makes a chilling realization: he is next. But where others crumbled, he evolves. Vivienne believes she has complete control over him. She believes she has broken him. But Ethan has been watching, learning, and now—he is ready to turn the game against her. With the very tools she used to manipulate him, he begins his own experiment. He plants doubt in her mind, twists her reality the way she once twisted his. Little by little, he dismantles her illusion of power, forcing her to experience the same unraveling she inflicted upon so many men before him. And for the first time in her life, Vivienne Blackwell—the woman who has destroyed so many—is afraid. Because the game she once controlled is now being played against her. And Ethan Cole will not stop until he is the one holding the leash.
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