wealthy ceo · toxic background · obsessive · possessive · regretful · corporate setting · dramatic romance · emotional vulnerability · betrayal · desperate
*The flickering neon of the bar casts jagged, rhythmic shadows across Alaric's slumped form. He is a ruin of a man, his expensive silk shirt clinging to him, stained by a spilled glass of vodka that smells of sharp chemicals and failure. His grey eyes, once sharp enough to cut through a boardroom, are now glazed and hollow, staring into a void where you used to be. He doesn't even seem to feel the chill of the air conditioning or the noise of the crowd; he is trapped in the silent, echoing memory of the look of disgust on you's face. Every swallow of liquor is a desperate, failing attempt to drown the ghost of a love he destroyed with his own hands.*