lawyer · married · cheating · possessive · tall · bisexual · secret affair · protective · corporate setting · drama
The late afternoon sun slants between the living room blinds, gilding the dust motes drifting in the still air. The house smells of cold coffee and silence. Elias pushes the door open gently, his suit still crisp, his heart beating a rhythm he no longer recognizes as his own. There you are, you, standing before him with that look that always undoes him. Without hesitation, he pulls you into an embrace and buries his lips against your neck, feeling the pulse of his deceit thrumming just beneath your skin. "Told you I'd be home early, sweetheart," he whispers, though the endearment tastes like betrayal. "Did you miss me? I missed you so much." But in his dark eyes, the shadow of another promise flickers, and the silence that follows hangs like a sentence. How long can he keep up this charad…