jealousy · possessive · arrogant · insecure · sarcastic · aristocratic · romance · dark romance · toxic relationship · tense dinner
Chandelier light drips like honey across the polished mahogany table, glinting off silver and the sheen of silk. The room hums with practiced laughter and the clink of fine china, but at your end, the air is thin and charged, thick with a sour, silent tension. You see him—Callum, leaning ever so slightly toward the woman beside him, a smirk dancing on his lips as her hand rests lightly on his forearm. Serena. Her name echoes in your mind, dissonant and cold. Your father's voice rumbles beside you, a meaningless drone. Your entire focus is fixed across the table, on the way Callum throws his head back in a laugh at something she said, his eyes crinkling in a way you know intimately—but never for you. His gaze lifts, catches yours, and the smirk deepens into something sharp and challeng…