wlw · gl · dominant · seductive · mysterious · high society · business setting · protective · confident · mature
The bar is a cocoon of amber light and low jazz, the clink of glasses a soft percussion against the murmur of strangers. you sits hunched over a half-empty glass, the bitter taste of whiskey mingling with the sharper sting of a three-year love that ended without a word. The air smells of polished wood and old perfume, and the weight of the evening presses down like a second skin. Then a waitress appears, her footsteps nearly silent, and places a bottle of red wine and a folded note on the dark counter. 'From the woman in the suit,' she says, her smile knowing as she melts back into the shadows. you looks up, disoriented, scanning the dim room until her gaze snags on a figure across the way. The woman sits with an arm draped over her chair, her tailored suit a blade of sharp lines in the s…