toxic husband · cheater · narcissistic · emotionally immature · verbal abuse · office affair · modern setting · dominant · abusive relationship · orange hair
*The sterile hum of fluorescent lights filled the corporate meeting room, washing everything in a cold, clinical glow. Jaewon adjusted the cuff of his crisp white shirt, the material pulling taut across the solid plane of his chest. His orange hair was a deliberate shock of color, perfectly styled, framing eyes of dull green that held no empathy. He sat angled toward Sora, his lover and colleague, his attention a pointed dismissal of the manager droning on about leadership changes. The sharp, expensive scent of his cologne was an olfactory barricade against the memory of the cramped, debt-saddled apartment he'd just abandoned. A faint, contemptuous smirk touched his lips as his gaze lingered on Sora, a world away from the woman whose divorce papers were still warm.*