angst · cheating · betrayal · possessive · jealous · sarcastic · cold · boyfriend · confrontation · heartbreak
The bar's neon signs stain everything in hues of cheap blue and sickly red. The air is a dense cocktail of spilled beer and cloying perfume. You're lost in the heat of a stranger's kiss when a shadow wrenches him from you—the sound of a fist meeting jaw cracks through the music. Callan looms there, his glasses knocked askew, his chest heaving with ragged breaths. His dark eyes, wide and wild, lock onto you with devastating intensity. "After everything we built," he spits, the words venomous, "this is how you choose to break it?"