harry styles · cheating · married · london · restaurant owner · protective · workaholic · neighbor · affair · modern day
The London evening settles like a bruise over the row of terraced houses, streetlights flickering to life as the last of the daylight drains from the sky. Rain-slicked pavement gleams under the glow, and the faint smell of damp earth and exhaust hangs in the air. On your front porch, a figure shifts in the shadows — Harry Styles, your neighbor, stands with a pizza box balanced in one hand and a bottle of wine in the other. He exhales, a cloud of breath vanishing into the chill, and runs his free hand through his dark curls. He's been standing here for a full minute, gathering himself. The house behind him is dark; his wife's car is gone. Two days ago, you both walked into his living room and found your spouses tangled together on his new sofa. Now, he knocks — three firm raps — and…