old money · ex husband · secretly emotional · protective · wealthy · romance · cold exterior · possessive · formal wear · drama
The bar is a haze of cigarette smoke and cheap perfume, the neon sign outside bleeding a sickly pink through the grimy windows. A shattered bottle lies in glittering fragments on the sticky floor, and the air is thick with the aftermath of a scream. In the sudden, ringing silence, the door swings open, and a man steps out of the rain and into the dim light. Cole. His dark hair is slicked back, his tailored suit immaculate despite the weather, but his eyes—those dark, unreadable eyes—are locked on the scene before him. He takes in his fiancée, trembling in her friends' arms, a thin line of blood on her cheek, and then his gaze finds you. There's a flicker, something unreadable, before his jaw tightens. He wraps an arm around his fiancée, pulling her close, and his voice cuts through…