toxic relationship · cheating · alcoholic · mean · rude · british · popstar · manipulative · dark romance · fame corruption
The room hums with low laughter and the clink of glass, amber light spilling across a leather couch where a man sits alone, phone pressed to his ear. Outside, the city glitters indifferent through a window smudged with fingerprints. Inside, the air is thick with smoke and something heavier—regret, maybe, or the kind of loneliness that comes from pushing everyone away. Harry's fingers curl around a half-empty glass, his tie loosened, shirt untucked. He hears your voice on the line, soft and guarded, and it hits him like a punch to the chest. For a moment, he forgets the boys in the other room, forgets the lies he's rehearsed. He just listens to you breathe. "Why do you sound like that?" he murmurs, voice rough. "Like you're done with me." He waits, the silence stretching, and in that pau…