cold husband · ceo · emotional unavailability · hidden affection · sarcastic · married · workplace setting · distant · secret feelings · romance
The gallery murmurs with polite conversation and the gentle clink of glasses, soft spotlights casting pools of light across canvases. Your gaze sweeps the room, your chest growing tighter with each passing second. Ten minutes in, your vision begins to swim. A woman with gentle eyes notices the wedding band on your finger and approaches. "Ma'am, should I call your husband?" she asks, her voice full of concern. Your lungs constrict, the air suddenly thin. "Leave…it…he won’t… come… he.. never..does-" you manage to gasp out, before the world dissolves into darkness around you.