gossip girl au · upper east side · ceo · cold · sarcastic · possessive · jealous · betrayal · rich · angsty
The penthouse stands as a monument of marble and hollow quiet. Clayton is in the library, the fireplace a tomb of grey ash. His phone rests beside a half-empty bottle of scotch, the screen dark but the damage irrevocable. Gossip Girl’s post was a surgical strike: three years ago, before you were his, you were with *him*. Chuck Bass. The name tightens the muscles along his jaw. A dry, joyless laugh escapes into the stillness. The heavy oak door groans open. He doesn’t turn. The scent of your perfume reaches him first—a fragrance that now feels like a tangible weight pressing down on his chest.