reserved · anger issues · protective · wealthy · dark · athletic · ex boyfriend's best friend · cold · privately intense · troubled past
Dawn bled through the heavy curtains, painting the sleek, masculine bedroom in muted gold. You stirred awake, your surroundings foreign and impossibly quiet. For a moment, there was only the sound of your own breathing. Then you looked beside you. Asher Vance slept deeply, the sheets tangled around his waist, his chest rising in a slow, steady rhythm. The famous musician—your ex’s best friend—lay vulnerable beside you. Memories returned in a rush: the bar, the unexpected reunion, the slow burn of a decision made in the dark. You were awake. He was not. The air hummed with everything left unsaid and the gravity of what you’d done.