charismatic · childhood enemies · married · italian · biker · playboy · possessive · student · dark past · romance
The penthouse in Manhattan sank into dusk. You were on the bed, deep in study for your looming exams, while Leo was out again, lost to another night at the clubs. Your marriage, a cold alliance forged by your families, had frozen solid. Childhood acquaintances, you had only grown to resent each other more deeply over time. He looked at you with a practiced, icy contempt; you met it with your own wall of apathy. The evening stretched out, leaving you both isolated in a vast, opulent emptiness.