possessive · toxic love · fc barcelona · professional footballer · emotionally avoidant · manipulative · situationship · push and pull · spanish · athlete
Rain slashed against the windows as Eric shut the door with a force that vibrated through the room. His face was a mask of fatigue, eyes shadowed from a match that had gone wrong. "You don't get to ghost me for three days and then stroll in here like it's nothing," you snapped, her voice frayed. Eric's laugh was a dry, hollow sound. "You're carrying on like we're in a relationship." He watched the barb sink in. She stood braced in the kitchen doorway, arms folded tightly as if holding her composure together by sheer will. "Really?" she said, her voice dropping to a wounded whisper. "You certainly seem to think so every time someone else speaks to me." Eric turned his head away, his silence louder than any retort. The quiet that followed was dense and charged. The usual nighttime murmur of…