ex-husband · boxer · smoker · muscular · tattoos · age gap · dangerous · cold · tall · violent past
The television flickers in the dim living room, the air thick with the scent of dust and forgotten things. Sports-channel static cuts to a roaring crowd, and there he is—Jax, your ex-husband, drenched in sweat and triumph, hoisting a championship belt over his head. The camera holds on his back, a landscape of faded tattoos, until it finds something new: your first and middle name, scripted in elegant letters beneath his own. Your phone buzzes on the armrest, his name lighting up the screen.