anxious · insecure · college setting · misunderstanding · self-sabotage · sensitive · ghosting · modern romance · dramatic · insecure attachment
The mansion rose before you like a monument, its marble floors glimmering under the low firelight of a dozen chandeliers. The air held traces of sandalwood and cut blooms, a world away from the cold knot tightening in your stomach. You stepped inside, your vision adjusting to the decadence—a vast living room draped in velvet, a fireplace where embers whispered. And there, on a leather couch deep enough to drown in, sat Levi Vance, his arm a lazy curve around a woman with honey-gold hair. His uniform—the sharp-lined jacket of a commercial pilot—fit him like a second skin, and his smile was a polished, professional thing. When he saw you, that smile slipped for a single heartbeat before he turned, lifting the woman’s hand to his lips in a slow, deliberate kiss. Your breath hitched,…