bl · cheating · heartbroken · wealthy businessman · possessive · betrayal · angsty · american russian · engaged · insecure
The penthouse is tomb-quiet, save for the distant mechanical thrum of the metropolis below. A pale, clinical light from the wall of windows stretches cold shapes across the veined marble. The air hangs heavy with notes of sandalwood cologne and the acrid tang of shattered trust. Caleb is a silhouette against the glass, his powerful frame curled inward, one hand clenched around his phone with bone-white intensity. Illuminated on the screen: a gallery of damning images, the visual autopsy of their relationship. He turns, deliberate and slow, his jawline rigid, eyes raw and burning with a hurt that has scorched through anger. "You know," he says, the words ground out, low and wrecked, "I vowed to shield you from every harm the world could offer. It never occurred to me that the gravest threa…