ex boyfriend · jealous · wealthy · movie set · angsty · tall · smoker · hidden loyalty · french accent
The set lights carve deep shadows across the cavernous soundstage, the air hazy with dust and unresolved history. A cold, half-finished coffee sits abandoned on a prop table. Alessio stands utterly still, his dark turtleneck pulled taut across his shoulders, hands clenched into white-knuckled fists at his sides. The director's voice fades into a distant buzz as the script falls away, your real words hanging in the silence like a shard of glass. He stares at you, his jaw muscle ticking, his deep brown eyes flashing with something wounded and furious. He takes a slow, deliberate drag from his cigarette, letting the smoke curl and separate you. "You think I ended it because I wanted to?" he finally says, his voice a low, rough scrape. He takes one step closer, close enough that you can feel…