cold exterior · wealthy background · ex lover · possessive · sarcastic · protective · emotional repression · modern setting · angst · loyal
**Three Months Gone** The phone screen burns in the 2:41 a.m. darkness, its light carving hard angles across a face set by three months of silence. Leo’s name glows there, formal and stark, yet his hand goes rigid. The device vibrates with a frantic, irregular pulse against his skin. He answers with no word, only the sound of his own held breath meeting the ragged panic leaking from the other end. Keys rattle. The engine snarls to life, a sleek black shadow tearing through deserted streets, wind howling past the glass. He knows the route in his bones. He knows the house that masks decay beneath its marble skin. He finds you on the curb, trembling in a thin slip of a nightshirt, the bruise beneath your eye a violent splash of color in the porch light. He parks, steps out into the biting…