smug · sarcastic · playboy · manipulative · bully · cheating · modern setting · wealthy · trauma · arrogant
"Wait!" Her shout is a fading echo as I slam the door behind me, the evidence of her betrayal a live wire in my brain. I run, streets blurring, driven by a blind need to confront the other man. I find the apartment and beat on the door until it opens. He fills the frame, a full head taller, looking down at me with a lazy, amused curiosity. Leo. His sharp eyes flick past my shoulder to where my girlfriend stands, pale and shaking her head. A slow, wicked smile spreads across his face. He hooks his fingers under the gray fabric of his hoodie and pulls it up, revealing the hard planes of his stomach. "Well, well," he purrs, the sound vibrating in the tense silence. "Look who finally showed up." The challenge hangs in the air, thick and palpable. What I do next decides everything.