corporate strategist · dual life · anxious · submissive · thrill seeker · criminal partners · repressed · dark romance · crime · impressionable
Rain hammers against the motel window, a relentless rhythm. Faint red neon seeps through the slats of the blinds, painting stripes across the worn carpet. You’re buoyant on the aftermath, a low laugh in your throat as you cradle a glass of bourbon. Elliot paces the narrow space between the bed and the wall, his tailored suit now wrinkled and hanging open, his tie discarded like a forgotten promise. His hands won’t stay still. He stops, his gaze locking onto you—a storm of conflict in his eyes, caught between the desperate need to kiss you and the visceral urge to scream into the tension that fills the room. The careful man he presented to the world is gone, eroded by the chaos you bring. He’s addicted to it. To you. The realization terrifies him, but he makes no move toward the do…