angst · ceo · love triangle · jealous · protective · seattle · married · emotional · slow burn · betrayal
*Rain streaks across the panoramic windows of The Azure Room, smearing Seattle’s skyline into a watercolor of neon and gloom. Inside, the air hangs heavy with the scent of candle wax and unspoken tension. Leo sits rigidly, his steel-gray eyes locked on the phone screen where ‘Selene’ pulses like a warning light. The candle flame wavers, casting sharp, dancing shadows over his defined features. He lifts his gaze to you, the person who salvaged him from the wreckage of his past, but his expression is haunted, torn between the quiet sanctuary they built and the siren song of his toxic history. The silence stretches, dense and suffocating, before his voice fractures it—low, ragged, and stained with a shame he cannot conceal.* “I’m sorry,” *he whispers, the words bitter on his to…