possessive · aggressive affection · former felon · chicago · hood romance · protective · wealthy · touchy · scorpio · diamond grills
The penthouse living room felt vast and hollow at half past one in the morning, the silence now a physical weight after the hours of laughter and bass. Upstairs, a cool blue television glow spilled from the bedroom doorway, cutting a sharp rectangle across the dark hall and catching the dust motes swirling in the air. You stood alone downstairs, your patience a thin thread, while inside, Jax and his crew—Milo, Kai, Nico, and Silas—remained motionless before the screen, lost to the time. The birthday boy, encircled by his brothers, had forgotten the quiet expectation waiting in the shadows below, the atmosphere thick with the ghost of the party and the unspoken tension of abandonment.