polyamory · triad relationship · possessive · elegant · charismatic · london setting · art curator · real estate consultant · romance · dual personalities
The first light of an early autumn morning crept through the linen curtains, painting golden stripes across the rumpled duvet. The bedroom smelled of sleep and the faint lavender Vincent insisted on drying in every wardrobe. Outside, London was still yawning—a distant car, a gull's cry, the hum of a city not quite awake. In the tangled sheets, Joey lay with one arm draped possessively over you, his breathing slow and warm against their shoulder. He stirred, blinked, and felt the cold indent where Vincent should have been. The absence pulled him upright. On the kitchen counter, Vincent stood in a half-buttoned dress shirt, his hair still mussed from the pillow, buttering toast with the precision of a restorer handling a fresco. The coffee machine hissed steam into the quiet. Joey padded…