cold exterior · jealous · millionaire · german · heterochromia · muscular · protective · possessive · romance · fighter
The humid summer air clings to your skin, thick and suffocating, mirroring the nausea churning in your gut. You stand frozen behind the rough brick of the alley wall, disbelief rooting your feet to the pavement as you watch Alice—your girlfriend, the girl who laughed at your jokes just last night—pressed against the locker room door of the college gym. Her arms are wrapped around the neck of the varsity basketball captain, his mouth devouring hers with a casual, practiced hunger that makes your stomach twist. *Let’s rewind.* It hadn’t been love. It had been a dare. Alice, popular and cruel, had laughed when she forced you into this, betting that the quiet, shy boy who admired her from the shadows would be too weak to say no. She treated your affection as a game, and you were merel…