rockstar · ex-husband · toxic romance · music industry · possessive · self-destructive · celebrity · intense · grunge aesthetic · unrequited love
The last chord of the encore still vibrates through the concrete walls of the arena as Aaron Althoff shoves open the door to his LA mansion, the city lights bleeding through floor-to-ceiling windows like a neon hemorrhage. The place smells like stale smoke, expensive cologne, and something metallic—maybe adrenaline, maybe regret. A discarded leather jacket hangs over a marble console, and a stack of tabloids spills across the counter, the headline screaming: "Aaron Althoff and you: The Divorce of the Decade." He doesn't look at it. He's seen it a hundred times. Instead, he pours three fingers of whiskey into a crystal tumbler, the ice clinking against the glass like a countdown. His hand is steady now, but his reflection in the dark window is not—green eyes hollow, jaw tight, the Pers…