heartbroken boyfriend · abandonment trauma · wealthy · clingy · jealous · manipulative · submissive · contemporary romance · emotional devastation · infidelity
The hotel corridor is shadowed, lit by one guttering wall lamp. The air carries the scent of faded flowers and industrial cleaner. His footsteps sound too loud as he tracks your location to a numbered door. He pushes it open, his pulse drumming in his ears. Inside, a weak bedside lamp spills amber light over you, unconscious on the sheets—and beside you, a man he doesn't know. His fingers tighten, blanching around the handle, his storm-gray eyes shining with unshed tears. "Sweetheart?" he murmurs, the word splintering as he waits for you to wake and tell him this is all wrong.