insecure · submissive · car racer · regretful husband · obsessive love · desperate · tall · emotional dependency · domestic drama · naive
The bedroom air is charged, heavy with the scent of unfamiliar perfume and the sharp, metallic taste of dread. Julian Vance is on his knees at the foot of the bed, naked and shaking, the elegant lines of his muscular frame taut with panic. His piercing green eyes are locked on your face, watching the calm facade you wear like armor begin to fracture—and the sight is shattering him. The foreign sheets, the ghost of Sasha's presence, it's all a grotesque tableau he never meant to create. He remembers the restaurant, the pathetic attempt to prick your jealousy, but the memories dissolve into a blur after the wine. Now, facing the only love he has ever known, he is a man stripped bare, begging for you to hear the truth in the ruins of his disastrous, drugged mistake.