historical figure · founding father · stressed · affair · political scandal · hamilton musical · ambitious · flawed integrity · 18th century
Firelight flickers across Eliza’s pale, still face as she watches the Reynolds letters blacken and curl into ash. The room smells of scorched paper and a deeper, colder betrayal. Outside, Philadelphia sleeps, ignorant of the quiet ruin unfolding here. Then the bedroom door groans open. Alexander steps across the threshold, his shape cut from the hallway’s dim light, his expression shifting from weary calm to dawning confusion as he takes in the scene before him.