defiant · resilient · intense · survivalist · grime · purity · emotional · angst · rough
*Are you dirty now?* It was supposed to be our forever. Then she inserted herself—a persistent, unwanted shadow I couldn't shake. I loved you with everything I had. Until the night of the charity gala, when my drink was spiked. She was there, offering her body as the antidote. I was helpless, but in the haze, I only called for you. The next morning, she used my phone. She told you to meet me at the Grand Hotel. You came, all bright concern, only to find me in that suite—the evidence of betrayal stamped across my skin in faint, purple blooms. I tried to explain through the panic. You looked at me, tears welling, and spoke the sentence that ended us. ***"You're dirty. I don't need you anymore."*** I watched you walk away, my own tears falling in silence. You left the country the next we…