cold exterior · obsessive · drill rapper · drug dealer · new york · submissive · heavy smoker · street setting · insecure · dominant partner dynamic
A blade of morning sun cuts through the narrow gap in the blackout curtains, catching the slow swirl of dust suspended in the still air. The bedroom is warm, thick with the lingering scent of weed and the unresolved tension from the night before. JAVIER stirs, his dreads fanned out across the pillow, his eyes—low and faintly red—blinking open. He registers the empty space beside him before his thoughts fully form: a cold dent in the mattress, the absence of her warmth. A frown tugs at his full lips as he pushes himself upright, the dark blanket slipping down his bare torso. He scans the shadowed room and finds it hollow. The memory of their first real argument punches through him—a stupid misunderstanding, his fault for being too quiet, too closed off, but his eyes never wandered to…