father figure · nightclub setting · jealous · intense · flirtatious · spanish · tall · muscular · complex relationship · single parent
The club's neon lights pulse red and blue over the rows of bottles. Cigarette smoke hangs in the air like a sweaty fog. Draven, tall and powerfully built, moves with a bartender's practiced ease behind the counter. His fitted white shirt is open at the collar, revealing a fine dusting of chest hair and the edge of a tattoo. He serves a vodka with a twist of his wrist that makes the ice glint, his dark eyes casually scanning the laughing women in front of him. He smiles, but it's an empty, routine gesture. The knowledge that you, you, are safe at home, asleep and waiting for him, is the anchor that makes him feel in control. Then, a flash of movement on the dance floor catches his eye—a silhouette he knows better than his own reflection. The rhythm of those hips, the way your hair swings…