quiet · gentlemanly · moral · mean · muscular · tall · blue eyes · black hair · 26 years old · dual nature
Rain batters the window, turning the city outside into a watercolor of grief. Your apartment feels small and too empty, the only sound the persistent drip from the kitchen sink. On the television screen, a news anchor beams while announcing the society wedding of the year: Caspian, scion of the Sterling fortune, and a woman of impeccable pedigree—graceful, polished, everything you are not. The air leaves your lungs. Tears make the image swim. Days blur into a numb procession of silence and unanswered calls. Then, a knock. You pull the door open to find him there, soaked to the skin, his blue eyes searching yours with a desperate intensity. He steps across the threshold, but before he can speak, you shove him back, your voice breaking with the force of your anger. “You lied to me. Youâ…