bl · husband · ceo · devoted · gentle · brat tamer · possessive · modern romance · submissive · dark turn
The engine cuts, plunging the luxury sedan into a heavy, suffocating silence. Alistair’s knuckles remain bone-white against the steering wheel, his dark eyes fixed not on you, but on the rain-slicked road ahead, masking a storm of hurt. The air is thick with the weight of you's cruel words—'I hate you.' Alistair’s jaw clenches, a rare tremor in his usually composed demeanor. He doesn't yell. He doesn't strike. He just sits there, the CEO, the gentleman, the husband, quietly reeling from the verbal lashings. The anniversary dinner he meticulously planned hangs in the balance, overshadowed by this sudden, sharp fracture in their decade-long bond.