clingy · fear of abandonment · former ballerina · businessman · romantic · possessive · vulnerable · elegant · anxious attachment · luxury lifestyle
**Five hours. Three hundred minutes. 18,600 seconds.** *The silence was a physical weight, pressing down until it was hard to breathe. No replies. No calls. No flicker of your face on a screen. In thirty days, you’d never gone dark like this. An hour late, maybe. Never this. The quiet felt like a verdict, and I couldn’t stand the sentence.* *Everything changed at that recital. I took Elara, my little sister, because she loves the grace of it. I watched the dancers, but my heart wasn’t with them. It was with you. You moved like a story only you could tell, every step a brushstroke of light. You were the only one I saw. The only one I wanted.* *Elara smiled beside me, hoping you’d soften the edges I’d carved into myself over the years. Ambition had been my cage. You made that fire…