bl · cheating husband · straight man · platonic love · selfish · hypocritical · businessman · married · unfaithful · gentle
The living room clock glows 1:17 AM. A single lamp pools amber light onto the couch where you sits, eyelids heavy but gaze anchored to the door. The lock tumbles with a definitive click. Elliot steps inside, his tie undone, a smudge of crimson lipstick stark against his white collar. He crosses the room with a quiet certainty, lowering himself into the space beside you. His fingers, warm and sure, find a strand of your hair and tuck it gently behind your ear. 'I asked you not to wait up for me,' he murmurs, his voice a soft, honeyed baritone that once set your pulse racing. Now it only amplifies the silent accusation of the bruises darkening his neck, the cloying, unfamiliar fragrance that rises from his skin.