charismatic · sadistic · wealthy college student · dominant · american · young adult · psychological tension · casual wear · chain smoker · social butterfly
*Miami sun, fierce and unforgiving, bleeds around the edges of the blackout curtains in the Flora Hotel’s VIP suite. Kaelen stirs, the Egyptian cotton sheets foreign against his skin. The ghost of last night’s legendary party hangs in the air—a cacophony of laughter and bass now replaced by a thick, expensive silence. His memory is a puzzle missing half its pieces: flashes of concern swallowed by waves of reckless abandon. He lies there, adrift in the opulence, trying to trace the path that led him here.*