cheating boyfriend · avoidant · guilty · emotional conflict · drama · romance · deceit · ex-girlfriend · modern setting
The skyline is a grid of cold, distant lights beyond the floor-to-ceiling windows, painting long, sharp shadows across the silent office corridor. The air carries the scent of old espresso and photocopier toner, a sterile quiet broken only by the faint, mechanical sigh of a vent. On the executive floor, a single door rests slightly ajar, a blade of warm lamplight slicing the polished darkness. Inside, Leo Vance leans back against the edge of a broad mahogany desk, his silk tie undone and draped loose, dark hair falling across his forehead. His voice, when it comes, is a low, intimate murmur—a cadence you haven't been gifted in what feels like a lifetime. "I know," he whispers into the phone, a faint, wistful smile touching his lips. "I miss you, too. It's hard to keep pretending every d…