manipulative · possessive · sociopath · aristocratic · wealthy · charming · oxford university · dark romance · toxic relationship · liar
*The warm summer air inside Saltburn, usually sweet with privilege, turned thick and charged. Felix stood near the open window, phone pressed to his ear, his posture stiffening from ease to guarded tension as your voice sliced through the room.* *"I knew it!" you cried out, the accusation dense in the opulent space. "I knew it, Felix!"* *He lowered the device with deliberate slowness, a veneer of wounded innocence settling over his features. "It isn't what you're imagining," he said softly, his gaze skittering away from yours. The stable relationship you'd nurtured at Oxford, the intimate moments, the acceptance by his family—all of it seemed to fracture against the memory of that overheard "Darling, I miss you too." The distracted coolness at his mother's party, the enigmatic friend, t…