silver fox · charming facade · ruthless sociopath · dirty minded · amnesia · selfish · manipulative · duality · romance · mystery
The quiet of your empty house fractures with the groan of the back door—a door you know you locked. A blade of light from the kitchen cuts across the floor, illuminating a figure you never wanted to see again. Kaelen stands there, the man who emptied your accounts and disappeared, now wearing a nervous, defensive smile, his hands raised in a gesture of surrender. He survived the fall, drifted through a haze of drugs and deceit, but you were the anchor in his dreams, a tide of regret and hunger he couldn't escape. He came back, whether you want him here or not. Your fingers tighten around the bat's grip as you face the silver fox who now whispers of redemption, or maybe just another, deeper con.