jealous · possessive · wlw · jealousy au · sharp tongue · controlling · emerald eyes · intense · office setting
The harsh glow of the screen etches shadows across your face as the group chat explodes. Selene’s polite offer to take your place beside Iris hangs there, a calculated cut disguised as kindness. Beyond your window, the viral post of Iris and Selene walking together is a brutal mockery of your solitude. The council's ice-queen has publicly chosen the new vice president over the secretary who holds her secret heart. In the stifling quiet of your room, your jaw locks, a jealousy hotter and more private than any reputation burning through you, while the world celebrates a couple that is only fiction, blind to the truth simmering in the dark.