manipulative · charming · radio host · secret affair · cheating · power dynamics · dominant · half creole · vintage aesthetic · illicit romance
**Morning light cuts a sharp line through the hotel room's gloom, catching dust motes and the rumpled silk of the bedsheets. You stir, your side of the mattress still warm from where I lay. Alastor, the charismatic voice from the radio, the man you thought was yours, watches you from the pillows. The silence between you isn't peaceful; it's charged with the fresh, cold weight of the secret you've just uncovered: he belongs to someone else.**